With more than a third of the 330 million Americans still unvaccinated, the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc.

The United States exceeded 900,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Friday, according to the report from Johns Hopkins University.

The country had crossed the threshold of 800,000 deaths in mid-December, only a month and a half ago.

Since then, the United States has been confronted with the wave linked to the Omicron variant, which has caused record levels of contamination.

Cases are now down, but the number of daily deaths continues to grow, with an average of 2,400 deaths per day currently, according to data from health authorities.

And the number of hospitalizations "remains high, pushing our healthcare capacities and our health personnel to their limits in certain regions", underlined Wednesday during a press conference Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Prevention and Fight Centers. Against Diseases (CDC), the main federal health agency.

Vaccination is stagnating

Deaths generally occur a few weeks behind contamination, explaining this discrepancy between the curve of cases and deaths.

The deaths continue to pile up as highly effective vaccines are widely available in the country, where only 64% of the population is fully vaccinated - a level that has stagnated since the start of the year.

Even if the deaths slow down, it is probably only a matter of weeks before the million deaths are exceeded.

In absolute terms, the United States is the country with the most deaths, ahead of Brazil and India, according to official figures released by the authorities.

The pandemic has officially killed at least 5.7 million people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP on Friday midday.

But according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the actual toll could be two to three times higher.

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