Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide - The New York Times

Coronavirus Deaths Pass One Million Worldwide - The New York Times

One million deaths — at least

More than one million people have died from COVID-19. Probably many more, because the true tally of those lost to the disease is achingly difficult to determine. Countries have had varying levels of success at protecting their citizens from a pandemic that scientists had long predicted. “This is a very serious global event, and a lot of people were going to get sick and many of them were going to die, but it did not need to be nearly this bad,” said Tom Inglesby, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

The New York Times | 6 min read
Read more: Researchers are struggling to gauge the true toll of the coronavirus outbreak (Nature | 11 min read, from September)