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Global Virus Death Toll Hits 2 million<\/em>, Associated Press, January 15, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the world in many ways holds its breath for the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the president and vice-president of the US in five days, and after Donald Trump became the first president in US history to be impeached for the second time in the wake of the attack on the US capital on January 6, the world continues to grasp for breath on the issue that dominated 2020 and at this point threatens to consume 2021 as well.<\/p>\n

Global coronavirus deaths passed two million today.<\/p>\n

It took eight months to hit the one million mark. It’s taken half that time to double.<\/p>\n

In fact, the toll is far higher due to under-reporting for numerous reasons.<\/p>\n

And new variants that are more infectious have been appearing as well.<\/p>\n

How much effective vaccine, from how many sources, is and will be available, to who and how fast, is unknown, with the impact of new variants also uncertain. Therefore, slowing down the catastrophe, much less the end of the pandemic, is not yet in clear sight.<\/p>\n

And in any event, the pandemic on this level could have been prevented, still could be mitigated, and will only be effectively ended, by science-based, consistent and humane public policy with leadership creating and reflecting this and basic human decency in personal behavior.<\/p>\n

Here are a number of reports from the US and around the world:<\/p>\n

\u2018This is not a game\u2019: Global virus death toll hits 2 million<\/a><\/p>\n

By CHRIS SHERMAN, MARIA CHENG, JOHN LEICESTER and JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press, January 15, 2021<\/p>\n

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FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, cemetery workers carry the remains of 89-year-old Abilio Ribeiro, who died of the coronavirus, to bury at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million. (AP Photo\/Edmar Barros, File)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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MEXICO CITY (AP) \u2014 The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream.<\/p>\n

The numbing figure was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The number of dead, compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Brussels, Mecca, Minsk or Vienna. It is roughly equivalent to the Cleveland metropolitan area or the entire state of Nebraska.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been a terrible amount of death,\u201d said Dr. Ashish Jha, a pandemic expert and dean of Brown University\u2019s School of Public Health. At the same time, he said, \u201cour scientific community has also done extraordinary work.\u201d<\/p>\n