U.S. Reaches Devastating 1 Million Deaths From COVID-19

An average of over 300 people are still dying each day from COVID-19 — most of whom are unvaccinated — even as safe and effective vaccines have been available to prevent severe illness or death from the virus.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky noted in February that unvaccinated people were 14 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who are vaccinated and boosted.

Black and Latinx people are more than twice as likely as white people to be hospitalized with the virus, and nearly twice as likely to die from it