Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP, a global health center at Columbia University. “What’s uniquely different about this pandemic is it hit hardest the high-resource countries,” said Dr.
In Ukraine, only 17% of the adult population is fully vaccinated in Armenia, only 7%.
Now, the virus is pummeling Russia, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe, especially where rumors, misinformation and distrust in government have hobbled vaccination efforts. Hot spots have shifted over the 22 months since the outbreak began, turning different places on the world map red. What happens if I refuse to wear a mask on a flight? The staggering figure is almost certainly an undercount because of limited testing and people dying at home without medical attention, especially in poor parts of the world, such as India. Globally, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke. It rivals the number of people killed in battles among nations since 1950, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. “What do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don’t get to another 5 million?”
Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health. “This is a defining moment in our lifetime,” said Dr. alone has recorded over 740,000 lives lost, more than any other nation. Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil - all upper-middle- or high-income countries - account for one-eighth of the world’s population but nearly half of all reported deaths. The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.
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