Experts say the 6 million total — the first deaths from the virus were reported in early 2020 — is most likely an undercount.
Worldwide deaths from covid-19 surpassed 6 million on Monday, a grim reminder of theEven as vaccination rates rose in parts of the world, the daily average of covid deaths stood at 9,000 during the past 28 days, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.“The idea we would get to 6 million is really inconceivable when I think back to two years ago,” said Mitchell Warren, executive director of AVAC, an HIV prevention organization that also advocates for global coronavirus vaccine equity.
“I think there’s a real danger in getting complacent about it, and there’s a risk that as the numbers pile up, you begin to see them as just numbers as opposed to human lives lost,” Nuzzo said. The segment of the U.S. population that has declined vaccination has been largely unshakable, according to surveys from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.Liz Hamel, Kaiser Family Foundation director of public opinion and polling research, said “hardcore refusers” consistently make up 12 percent to 16 percent of people in polls since the foundation began monitoring vaccine attitudes.
No matter where it happens on the map, the more the virus spreads, the more likely new variants are to emerge, said Aditi Nerurkar, a Harvard Medical School physician and lecturer on global health. The omicron variant was first detected in southern Africa late last year and quickly spread to other continents, leading to a resurgent wave of the pandemic.
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