Despite its wealth and vaccine availability, the United States is nearing 1 million reported deaths on its own.
Evusheld can help protect immunocompromised people from COVID, but patients say scant awareness and a complicated process have hampered its rollout., said Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s medical school and co-chair of the Asia Pacific Immunization Coalition.
Almost certainly, the world actually hit its 6 millionth COVID-19 death some time ago. Poor record-keeping and testing in many parts of the world has led to an undercount in coronavirus-related deaths, in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not from COVID-19 itself, such as people who died from preventable causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.
and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death,” Mathieu told the Associated Press. “In some, mostly rich countries, that fraction is high and the official tally can be considered to be fairly accurate, but in others it is highly underestimated.”