'Very likely' COVID-19 deaths could top 2 million, WHO official warns

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The World Health Organization's Mike Ryan issues a grim warning that the global death toll from COVID-19 could more than double to over 2 million before vaccines are widely distributed.

The global death toll from COVID-19 could more than double to 2 million before a successful vaccine is widely used and could be even higher without concerted action to curb the pandemic, a World Health Organization official has said.

"Unless we do it all, [2 million deaths] ... is not only imaginable, but sadly very likely," Mike Ryan, head of the UN agency's emergencies program, told a briefing on Friday . The number of deaths about nine months since the novel coronavirus was discovered in China is nearing 1 million.He said young people should not be blamed for a recent increase in infections despite growing concerns that they are driving its spread after restrictions and lockdowns were eased around the world.

 

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So keep your a$$ home!

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Way to take the press question out of context. Perhaps people should watch the pressers for themselves. who

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