Omicron Wave Pushes U.S. COVID Numbers Past 'Astronomical' 900,000 Deaths

 https://www.newsweek.com/omicron-wave-pushes-us-covid-numbers-past-astronomical-900000-deaths-1676479

In an interview with PBS, Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, who studies epidemiology and global health at the Johns Hopkins Center For Health, said the high death toll in the U.S. is likely due to the country "not making enough progress in vaccinating adults against the virus."

The U.S. ranks third in the world when looking at the number of people vaccinated, but when focusing on vaccination rates relative to population, the U.S. falls to 58th in the world, though it still stands above the world average, Johns Hopkins reported.

Nuzzo told PBS some Americans are hesitant to get the vaccine because the U.S. has an "information environment" in which people try to do their own research on the vaccine.