COVID Death Toll: 5 Million and Counting

FIVE MILLION dead. The horror keeps growing, and the apathetic and anti-vaccine attitudes keep going.

From the AP:  "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 U.S. alone has recorded over 745,000 lives lost, more than any other nation.

'This is a defining moment in our lifetime,' said Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'What do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don’t get to another 5 million?'

The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. It rivals the number of people killed in battles among nations since 1950, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Globally, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke."