Covid-19: Over 105 Million Cases Worldwide
While vaccines are being administered internationally, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect countries around the globe, with the number of confirmed cases worldwide now surpassing 105 million, with over 2,287,000 deaths worldwide, and the United States continuing to have the most confirmed cases and deaths in the world.
A BBC story said, “After at least a month of lockdown, figures from the Office for National Statistics [ONS] suggest positive tests are falling in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
“Swab tests from people signed up to the Covid symptom app suggest cases are down 70% from their peak in January.
“But experts warn that infection levels still remain high.
“An estimated one in 65 people in both England and Northern Ireland had the virus, one in 70 in Wales and one in 115 in Scotland.
“Cases fell in every UK nation apart from Wales where infections remained stable.”
A CNN story said, “An estimated 631,000 Americans will have died from Covid-19 by June 1, according to the latest forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
“The team behind the influential forecast model said a lot depends on the vaccine rollout and the spread of variants. A worst-case scenario could see the death toll go as high as 703,000.
“The balance between new variant spread and associated increased transmission and the scale-up of vaccination in our most likely scenario suggests continued declines in daily deaths through to June 1,” it said.
“As of Thursday night, the US had reported more than 455,000 Covid-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.”
As the island and world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, we are doing our best to provide timely and accurate information, and you can find more information on the links below.
- All: Our coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic here
- Official: The Bermuda Government website here
- World Stats: Live graph of all cases worldwide here
- Bermuda Stats: Chart of the Bermuda stats here
- Timeline: Visual look at the timeline here
- Comprehensive: Our BermudaCovid.com website here
- Live Updates: Continuous updates of the latest news here.
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Pesky detail in the US. The CDC’s website says that only 6% of the reported deaths from covid-19 are purely from covid-19. Under CDC’s guidelines of possible and probable, a person run over by a bus and killed can be classified as a covid-19 death if the person tests positive or even if someone in the household is infected and the dead person tests negative.
Does anyone really believe that hundreds of thousands of tests and autopsies were performed in the US and millions worldwide? Is everyone aware that according to the WHO, there is no global standard for determining death from covid-19?
Lastly, not one of the covid-19 death stories lists any qualifiers and disclaimers on the deaths claimed and model calculations. You have to track down the provider of the information and read what they say.