According to statistics provided by Johns Hopkins University, the United States has officially experienced more than 800,000 COVID-19 fatalities as of Tuesday.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, Hopkins has been the main registrar of COVID-19 deaths, and Tuesday's tragic milestone comes just over two months after the United States exceeded 700,000 deaths in early October. According to The Associated Press, the United States has the largest number of COVID-19 deaths of any country in the world, accounting for 15% of worldwide COVID-19 mortality while having just 4% of the world's population.

The rising death toll predicts that the bulk of COVID-19 deaths in the United States will occur in 2021, with a death toll of roughly 370,000 entering the year. According to the Associated Press, experts expect the death rate will decline, with the United States not reaching 880,000 fatalities until March 2022.

The great majority of persons who died from the illness in 2021 were unvaccinated, and specialists believe the fatalities might have been avoided.

According to the Associated Press, "almost all of the people dying are now dying preventable deaths."

"And it's because they haven't been immunized." And you know it's a horrible tragedy."

Americans believed the epidemic was nearly over in 2021, but the virus resurfaced, thanks in large part to the Delta variant. The virus's persistence has resulted in several economic failures, lowering President Joe Biden's support ratings as Americans' wallets bear the brunt of record-high inflation and supply chain backlogs.

The Biden administration has attempted to enforce sweeping vaccination mandates across the country, but state governments have resisted the endeavor. While the validity of his mandate is being debated in court, all components of his mandate are now under stay orders from federal judges.