From the article:
Worldwide, there are about 8,000 new COVID-19 deaths every day, according to Our World in Data.
The more transmissible delta variant adds even more fuel to the fire, allowing outbreaks to grow faster.
“It’s a really scary moment and if nothing changes it’s going to be a really terrible situation,” said Rachel Silverman, policy fellow at the Center for Global Development.
In addition to helping people in other countries, experts say it is also in the interest of the United States and other wealthy countries to slow the pandemic globally, so that new variants of the virus, which could eventually potentially evade vaccines, have less chance to develop.
