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U.S. Nears 600,000 Virus Deaths Despite Progress From Vaccines Dan Levin and Julie Bosman © Brittany Greeson for The New York Times Hollie Rivers, 28, with her children at their home in Lincoln Park, Mich. Her husband, Antwone, died of Covid-19 last month. It is a number that once seemed unimaginable. In the next few days, the United States will surpass 600,000 deaths from Covid-19, the highest known death toll in the world. The milestone approaches even though virus cases and deaths in this country have sharply fallen, vaccinations have been distributed widely, and many people have shed their masks and resumed prepandemic lives, including in New York and California, which both fully reopened on Tuesday.

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