| The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Monday. In the U.S. alone, more than 740,000 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil make up half of the global deaths, but just one-eighth of the world's population.
"What's uniquely different about this pandemic is it hit hardest the high-resource countries," said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, director of ICAP, a global health center at Columbia University. "That's the irony of COVID-19."
Following heart disease and stroke, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the world.
"This is a defining moment in our lifetime," said Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health. "What do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don't get to another 5 million?"
Virus hot spots have shifted since the COVID-19 first surfaced. Currently, Ukraine, which only has 17% of its adult population fully vaccinated, along with Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe, are struggling with another surge.
Africa is the world's least vaccinated region. Five percent of the 1.3 billion people are covered.
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