US Covid Fatalities Cross 450000
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The coronavirus death toll in the United States crossed another dark milestone of 450,000 on Wednesday.
With 3,936 new deaths reporting in the country, the national total rose to 450,680, as per data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The United States has lost most lives from the pandemic, ahead of countries like Brazil, Mexico, India and the United Kingdom, that have reported more than 100,000 total Covid-19 deaths.
California is the worst affected U.S. state in terms of total number of people who were infected with the disease (3,368,281), while most deaths were reported in New York, 44,148.
By Sasha Margulies, iHeart Media
Feb 4, 2021
Global confidence about getting the COVID-19 vaccine is rising.
According to a new survey done by the Institute of Global Health Innovation in London, 54% of respondents in 15 countries would get the vaccine if it was offered to them. In November that figure was only 41%. A CNN poll conducted last month showed that 66% of Americans would get a vaccine. That number was up from 51% in October.
04 February 2021
People’s willingness to get vaccinated against the coronavirus is rising, according to a new report on global attitudes towards vaccines.
More than half of those surveyed (54%) would take a vaccine if it was offered to them next week. This is an increase from November when the same survey, which ran across 15 countries and included 13,500 people each time, showed that just 4 in 10 (41%) would be willing to get vaccinated at the time.
However the survey from Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI), in collaboration with YouGov, has highlighted major differences in attitudes towards vaccines across the world.
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Millions of coronavirus vaccinations have already been administered globally as countries race to fortify themselves against the global pandemic.
But as the scramble to secure vaccines intensifies, there are fears that poorer countries will miss out as richer nations stockpile crucial supplies.
For two months, the US-based Duke University Global Health Innovation Centre has been keeping track of which countries are buying vaccines and comparing these figures with where disease burden is the greatest.
The centre s research shows that, of the 7 billion doses bought world wide, more than 4 billion have been snapped up by high-income countries.
A woman opens her mouth for a heath worker to collect a sample for coronavirus testing in South Africa.