On day vaccine is released, U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 300,000
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
In this May 11, 2020, file photo, Leonardo Cabana cries over the casket of his father Hector Miguel Cabana, who died of COVID-19 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 300,000 Monday, Dec. 14, just as the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots in a monumental campaign to conquer the outbreak. (John Minchillo, Associated Press file photo)
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