Kathmandu, February 5. During the two years of pandemic, the USA has seen more than 9,00,000 of its people die of COVID-19 infection.

On Friday afternoon, Johns Hopkins University released a report in which it showed that a total of 76 million cases have been confirmed in the United States since January 2020. The report also said that the epidemic death toll reached 9,00,334 on Friday afternoon.

Nearly 11 percent of the total deaths occured in the past two and a half months. ‘Since the invasion of the Omicron variant in mid-December, more than 1 lakh people have died in the United States’, the report noted,

“While Omicron has been shown to be less likely to cause severe sickness than Delta, the higher number of patients infected with Omicron contributed to the high number of deaths,” the authors of the paper told reporters.

The data seems controversial because, in May of last year,  world-renowned immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci, who also serves as the Biden Administration’s main medical advisor, claimed on a televised program that the United States’ COVID death toll was undercounted.

At the time, the death toll was about 6 lakhs, but Fauci claimed that the actual number of deaths was over 9 lakhs. “That’s a little higher than I expected the undercounting to be, but, you know, the models are sometimes spot on, and sometimes they’re a little wrong.” Fauci opined.