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U.S. Covid Deaths Approach 500,000

February 21, 2021 at 7:56 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Roughly one year since the first known death by the coronavirus in the United States, an unfathomable toll is nearing — the loss of half a million people.”

“No other country has counted so many deaths in the pandemic. More Americans have perished from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.”

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