Worldwide Death Toll from Coronavirus Eclipses 1 Million
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My Aruba Story Wednesday September 30, 2020 T: 582-7800 www.arubatoday.com facebook.com/arubatoday instagram.com/arubatoday Page 8 Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper Worldwide death toll from coronavirus eclipses 1 million In this July 11, 2020, file photo, mourners carry out the remains of loved ones following the blessing of the ashes of Mexicans who died from COVID-19 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. Associated Press By A. GELLER/R. R. JAIN live, learn and work. “It’s It’s people we know,” he was at Woodstock in 1969. And the number contin- Associated Press not just a number. It’s hu- added. “And if you don’t It is more than four times ues to mount. Nearly 5,000 NEW DELHI (AP) — The world- man beings. It’s people we have that human factor the number killed by the deaths are reported each wide death toll from the love,” said Dr. Howard Mar- right in your face, it’s very 2004 earthquake and tsu- day on average. Parts of coronavirus has eclipsed 1 kel, a professor of medical easy to make it abstract.” nami in the Indian Ocean. Europe are getting hit by million, nine months into a history at the University of The bleak milestone, re- Even then, the figure is al- new outbreaks, and ex- crisis that has devastated Michigan who has advised corded on Monday in the most certainly a vast un- perts fear a second wave the global economy, test- government officials on U.S. by Johns Hopkins Uni- dercount because of in- in the U.S., which accounts ed world leaders’ resolve, containing pandemics and versity, is greater than the adequate or inconsistent for about 205,000 deaths, pitted science against poli- lost his 84-year-old mother population of Jerusalem or testing and reporting and or 1 out of 5 worldwide. tics and forced multitudes to COVID-19 in February. Austin, Texas. It is 2 1/2 times suspected concealment to change the way they “It’s our brothers, our sisters. the sea of humanity that by some countries. Continued on Page 2 A2 WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2020 UP FRONT Worldwide death toll from coronavirus eclipses 1 million Continued from Front edy, millions of deaths are a statistic. The pandemic’s That is far more than any toll of 1 million dead in such other country, despite a limited time rivals some of America’s wealth and the gravest threats to pub- medical resources. lic health, past and present. “I can understand why ... It exceeds annual deaths numbers are losing their from AIDS, which last year power to shock, but I still killed about 690,000 people think it’s really important worldwide. The virus’s toll is that we understand how approaching the 1.5 million big these numbers re- global deaths each year ally are,” said Mark Hon- from tuberculosis, which igsbaum, author of “The regularly kills more people Pandemic Century: One than any other infectious Hundred Years of Panic, disease. But “COVID’s grip Hysteria and Hubris.” on humanity is incompa- The global toll includes rably greater than the grip people like Joginder of other causes of death,” Chaudhary, who was his said Lawrence Gostin, a parents’ greatest pride, professor of global health raised with the little they law at Georgetown Uni- earned farming a half-acre versity. He noted the un- plot in central India to be- In this Sept. 24, 2020, file photo, cemetery workers place the coffin containing the remains of Jose employment, poverty and come the first doctor from de Arimateia, 65, who died from COVID-19 complications, into a niche at the municipal cemetery despair caused by the in Nova Iguacu, Brazil. their village. Associated Press pandemic, and deaths After the virus killed the from myriad other illnesses 27-year-old Chaudhary in his church to the dead, on Jan. 11. By the time au- Brazil has recorded the that have gone untreated. late July, his mother wept lining up 80 coffins in the thorities locked down the second most deaths af- For all its lethality, the virus inconsolably. With her son center aisle. After an army city nearly two weeks lat- ter the U.S., with about has claimed far fewer lives gone, Premlata Chaud- convoy carted them to a er, millions of travelers had 142,000. India is third and than the so-called Spanish hary said, how could she crematory, another 80 ar- come and gone. China’s Mexico fourth, with more flu, which killed an estimat- go on living? Three weeks rived. Then 80 more. government has come in than 76,000. The virus has ed 40 million to 50 million later, on Aug. 18, the virus Eventually the crisis re- for criticism that it did not forced trade-offs between worldwide in two years, just took her life, too. All told, it ceded and the world’s at- do enough to alert other safety and economic well- over a century ago. has killed more than 96,000 tention moved on. But the countries to the threat. being. The choices made That pandemic came be- in India. pandemic’s grasp endures. Government leaders in have left millions of people fore scientists had micro- “This pandemic has ruined In August, Carminati buried countries like Germany, vulnerable, especially the scopes powerful enough my family,” said the young his 34-year-old nephew. South Korea and New Zea- poor, minorities and the to identify the enemy or doctor’s father, Rajendra “This thing should make us land worked effectively to elderly. antibiotics that could treat Chaudhary. “All our aspi- all reflect. The problem is contain it. Others, like U.S. With so many of the deaths the bacterial pneumonia rations, our dreams, every- that we think we’re all im- President Donald Trump beyond view in hospital that killed most of the vic- thing is finished.” mortal,” the priest said. and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, wards and clustered on tims. In the U.S., the Spanish When the virus over- The virus first appeared in dismissed the severity of society’s margins, the mile- flu killed about 675,000. But whelmed cemeteries in late 2019 in patients hos- the threat and the guid- stone recalls the grim pro- most of those deaths did the Italian province of Ber- pitalized in the Chinese ance of scientists, even as nouncement often attribut- not come until a second gamo last spring, the Rev. city of Wuhan, where the hospitals filled with gravely ed to Soviet dictator Josef wave hit over the winter of Mario Carminati opened first death was reported ill patients. Stalin: One death is a trag- 1918-19.q How can I volunteer for a COVID-19 vaccine study? By The Associated Press see if a shot causes a risky virus for researchers to be How can I volunteer for a reaction in people. Older able to tell if the vaccine COVID-19 vaccine study? adults, anyone with a works. That's why essential Governments and serious underlying illness, workers, such as grocery companies are setting up and pregnant women are or transportation workers websites where people can typically excluded from this who come into frequent sign up.Enthusiasm is high: testing stage. contact with others, are More than 400,000 people In final-stage studies, especially sought after for have signed a registry of scientists need tens of the last testing phase. It's possible volunteers that's thousands of volunteers also why researchers are part of a vaccine network who reflect the diversity of recruiting in places where set up by the U.S. National the population, including the virus is spreading, not Institutes of Health. those at high risk of severe areas that have it under But before raising your illness from the virus. So control — so even if you hand, it's important to volunteers can include meet the eligibility criteria, understand how the people who are over age you might not be called Belgium's Queen Mathilde, fourth left speaks with a volunteer, research works. 65 and people with chronic back, depending on where second right, as she receives an injection at the Center for Initial studies include health problems such as you live.Volunteers won't the Evaluation of Vaccinations (CEV) in Antwerp, Belgium, only a few dozen young, diabetes. know if they're getting Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Associated Press healthy volunteers, since Enough study participants the vaccine or a dummy this is the first chance to have to be exposed to the shot.q A3 U.S. NEWS WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2020 California sues U.S. regulator in bid to deter 'ghost guns' By DON THOMPSON in San Jose from 2017 to Associated Press 2018, the suit says, without SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) providing actual numbers — Backed by the fathers of of weapons seized. two slain children, Califor- They now make up 30% of nia's attorney general sued guns recovered in Califor- the Trump administration nia, said Hannah Shearer, on Tuesday in an effort to litigation director at the Gif- crack down on so-called fords Law Center that also "ghost guns" that can be is a party in the lawsuit. built from parts with little California is now home to ability to track or regulate 18 of the 80 known online the owners. ghost gun retailers, double The federal Bureau of Al- the number from six years cohol, Tobacco, Firearms ago and the most of any and Explosives doesn't con- state, according to the sider that the unfinished lawsuit.