The United States currently has the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and related deaths in the world.
More than 3.4 million people have died from the disease globally.
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Update on COVID-19 numbers
Globally, there have been more than 165 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3.4 million associated deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The United States has reported more than 33 million confirmed cases.
More than 589,000 people in the United States have died from the disease.
Currently, more than 160.1 million U.S. people have received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose. More than 126.6 million people are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.
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5/21/21 2:37 p.m. PDT — Death toll from COVID-19 is probably 2 to 3 times higher than reported
Officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) say that the global death toll is probably around two to three times the number reported, according to Reuters.
Currently, more than 3.4 million people have died from COVID-19. But the new report from the WHO would mean around 6 to 9 million people have died from the disease.
In many countries, a surge of COVID-19 cases meant that some people died before they were able to be tested for the disease, so their deaths were not officially linked to the pandemic.
People in India recover from COVID-19 only to die from ‘black fungus’
According to CNN, doctors in India began raising the alarm in early May about a rise in mucormycosis, a rare and potentially deadly infection. It’s also known as black fungus.
“One of the ways mucormycosis travels is by invading the blood vessels,” Dr. Hemant Thacker, consultant physician and cardiometabolic specialist at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, told CNN. “It compromises the circulation to the distal organ, and thus produces what is called as necrosis or death of tissue, which then becomes black. So it is then given the name black fungus.”
Many people with a mucormycosis infection also have COVID-19, or have recently recovered from it, whose immune systems were weakened by the virus or who have underlying conditions, particularly diabetes.
In the past few weeks, thousands of mucormycosis cases have been reported across India, with hundreds hospitalized and at least 90 dead, CNN reported. Two states in India have declared it an epidemic, and the central government has made it a notifiable disease.
Source: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/covid-19-updates#5/21/21-2:37-p.m.-PDT-Death-toll-from-COVID-19-is-probably-2-to-3-times-higher-than-reported
