America: which are the countries most affected by covid?
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(CNN) --
As of Friday, more than 900,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Experts believe the true figure is much higher.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the number of deaths from covid-19 in the country was about 32% higher than reported between February 2020 and September 2021.
Over the last two weeks, there have been more than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths per day in the US, according to Johns Hopkins.
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The World Health Organization declared covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020.
The United States reported its first 100,000 deaths about two and a half months later, on May 23, 2020, according to Johns Hopkins.
By February 21, 2021, the figure had risen to 500,000 deaths.
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800,000 deaths were recorded on December 13, 2021 and now, less than two months later, the United States has reported a total of 900,334 deaths.
More than a third of all reported deaths occurred last winter, between November 2020 and February 2021.
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Unvaccinated adults have a 97 times higher risk of dying from covid-19 than fully vaccinated adults who received the booster, according to the latest data from the CDC.
The risk of dying from covid-19 is significantly higher for older people.
In the United States, more than three-quarters (76%) of people who have died from covid-19 since the pandemic began were 65 years of age or older.
More than a quarter (28%) of the deaths have been of those over 85 years of age.
About 150,000 people who live in nursing homes and staff who work in those places have died from covid-19, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which represents about 15% of all deaths. by covid-19 in the United States.
Globally, there have been more than 5.7 million deaths from Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins.
The United States accounts for about 5% of the world's population, but about 16% of deaths from covid-19, more than any other country.
The highest COVID-19 death rates within the country are in Mississippi and the lowest in Hawaii.
Overall, more than one in five people in the US have been infected with covid-19.
There have been more than 76 million cases recorded since the start of the pandemic.
