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Mass shutdowns began in earnest around this time a year ago.Credit...Marie Eriel Hobro for The New York Times
Counting the cost
Today marks one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. The scale of the upheaval since then is difficult to capture, but some extraordinary numbers tell the tale…
The most important figures of all: More than
118 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported worldwide, and more than
2.6 million deaths. Around
In the U.S. alone, there have been more than 29 million cases, nearly 530,000 deaths and around 94 million doses administered.
The U.S. government is set to spend over