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4 Million Fatalities Thursday

4,002,924. That is how many Global Citizens have died from Corona Virus in the past 18 months.  Despite all the improvements made under Biden in the last 6 months, the US is still leading the World in both infections and deaths though, with almost 70% of our population now vaccinated – it does liik like India and Brazil will catch up to us.    India has 1.4Bn people so it's understandable they might have as many infections and deaths as the US, with our 330M people (less than 1/4) but Brazil only has 211M people, just 2/3 the size of the US so their deaths per capita have already surpassed ours.   This is not a chart of something that is over, mo matter how much we wish it to be less than 15% of the World population has been vaccinated and that means 85% of the people are still exposed – including an alarming 32% of the US population, though that is mostly Conservatives who don't wish to be vaccinated. While you may think it's fine and dandy for people to choose not to be vaccinated for whatever crazy reason - those people, in turn, breed variants of the virus in their unvaccinated population and, eventually/inevitably, some of those variants end up being vaccine-resistant strains and then the 70% of us who are vaccinated are right back in danger anyway.   Look what has already happened in the UK, India and Nepal – the Delta Variant has become dominant as our current vaccines are far less effective against it and you can see how quickly UK Covid cases are ramping back up despite 68% of their population having had at least one dose of the vaccine (51% fully vaccinated).   "Trump Lite", Boris Johnson,  said on Monday that the "continuing effectiveness" of the vaccine rollout allows …

4,002,924.

That is how many Global Citizens have died from Corona Virus in the past 18 months.  Despite all the improvements made under Biden in the last 6 months, the US is still leading the World in both infections and deaths though, with almost 70% of our population now vaccinated – it does liik like India and Brazil will catch up to us.  

India has 1.4Bn people so it's understandable they might have as many infections and deaths as the US, with our 330M people (less than 1/4) but Brazil only has 211M people, just 2/3 the size of the US so their deaths per capita have already surpassed ours.  

Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Google NewsThis is not a chart of something that is over, mo matter how much we wish it to be less than 15% of the World population has been vaccinated and that means 85% of the people are still exposed – including an alarming 32% of the US population, though that is mostly Conservatives who don't wish to be vaccinated.

While you may think it's fine and dandy for people to choose not to be vaccinated for whatever crazy reason - those people, in turn, breed variants of the virus in their unvaccinated population and, eventually/inevitably, some of those variants end up being vaccine-resistant strains and then the 70% of us who are vaccinated are right back in danger anyway.  

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases - Statistics and Research - Our World in Data

Chart: Rise in UK Covid cases continues unabated | StatistaLook what has already happened in the UK, India and Nepal – the Delta Variant has become dominant as our current vaccines are far less effective against it and you can see how quickly UK Covid cases are ramping back up despite 68% of their population having had at least one dose of the vaccine (51% fully vaccinated).  

"Trump Lite", Boris Johnson, said on Monday that the "continuing effectiveness" of the vaccine rollout allows


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