How do US Covid deaths compare?
The US has lost more lives to the coronavirus this year than in 2020 due to the more contagious Delta variant and people refusing to get vaccinated.
Since the start of the year, over 450,000 people in the United States have died after contracting Covid-19, or 57% of all US deaths from the illness since the pandemic started, according to a Reuters tally.
The deaths this year were mostly in unvaccinated patients, health experts say.
It took 111 days for US deaths to jump from 600,000 to 700,000 and the next 100,000 deaths took just 73 days.
The death rate in the United States was more than three times higher than in neighbouring Canada and 11 times more than Japan.
When compared with the European Union, the United States has 1.3 times the per capita deaths reported in the last 11 months than the entire bloc.
New infections in the United States are averaging around 120,000 a day, with Michigan contributing the most cases a day.
Of the 10 states that reported the most deaths per capita in the last 11 months, eight were from the country’s south – Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia.
Roughly 60% of the US population has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, CDC data showed.
Here is a detailed Covid-19 map of the US with the latest cases state by state.
