Death toll nears 6 million as pandemic enters its 3rd year

By The Associated Press

Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France on Dec. 31, 2021.

Health care experts say that confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID because of limited testing.

(Image credit: Daniel Cole/AP)

Source: Death toll nears 6 million as pandemic enters its 3rd year