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The funeral of Gregory Blanks, 50, who died of complications from Covid-19 in Texas in January. Credit...Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters
The U.S. nears 500,000 virus deaths
More Americans have died of Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. No other country has counted so many deaths in the pandemic.
As of this writing, the U.S. toll stood at 498,033, about a fifth of the known global toll — roughly one year since the country’s first confirmed Covid-19 death. The coronavirus has reached every corner of the U.S., devastating dense cities and rural counties alike, and has killed about one in 670 people in the country. Virus variants are an increasing threat and grief is widespread.