Over one million American lives lost to COVID-19 with Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH | COVID-19 Update

AMA CXO Todd Unger and Andrea Garcia, AMA's director of science, medicine and public health, discuss the grim milestone of one million COVID deaths in the U.S. Also covering rising cases—especially in the Northeast and Midwest, where daily case reports are higher now than at the peak of 2021's summer Delta surge. As well as news from last week's second global COVID-19 vaccination summit. 0:00 AMA COVID-19 Update for May 18, 2022 0:46 The U.S. hit one million COVID deaths 1:59 Covid-19 is now the third leading cause of death among Americans 3:56 What did the AMA, AHA, and ANA's joint statement say regarding one million COVID deaths? 5:00 COVID-19 cases are now rising in nearly every U.S. state 6:10 Hospitalizations are also increasing, but not as quickly as case-count 7:17 Pandemic funding proposal still remains stuck in Congress 8:42 All COVID variants driving infections now were first identified outside of the United States 9:51 What details emerged from the second global COVID-19 vaccination summit last week? 10:51 NIH agreed to license its “stabilized spike protein technology” to companies through the Medicines Patent Pool (a global nonprofit backed by the WHO) Stay up to date on the latest information about the pandemic: https://ama-assn.org/covid-19-resources. Visit the COVID-19 Daily Video Updates page for more videos in this series: https://ama-assn.org/covid-19-videos.