COVID-19's global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

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Globally, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke.

Relatives of Luis Enrique Rodriguez, who died of COVID-19, visit where he was buried on a hill at the El Pajonal de Cogua Natural Reserve, in Cogua, north of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Rodriguez died May 14, 2021. Relatives bury the ashes of their loved ones who died of coronavirus and plant a tree in their memory. FILE - Patients lie on beds in a COVID-19 isolation room at the University Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 22, 2021.

FILE - Seen through the foliage of a tree, a member of the medical staff looks from a window at one of the COVID-19 dedicated sections of the Matei Bals hospital as people wait outside to get the third dose booster Pfizer vaccine shot, Sept. 28, 2021, in Bucharest, Romania. The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5 million, nearly two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.

 

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So now people really think that China, and India give actually accurate statistics.

That's an unimaginable level of sadness and loss.

It`s like your house is on fire and you have an extinguisher to put it out, but you decide not to, because that`s your right and so it grows and spreads until it takes out the whole neighborhood.

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