Reaching 1 million COVID deaths in the U.S. is a stark reminder that the pandemic is far from over despite life-saving vaccines that have alleviated symptoms and slowed death rates worldwide.
Not even in the darkest days, when bodies were being stacked in refrigerated trucks and New York City’s dead were being buried in mass graves did anyone think this number could be reached.
The Johns Hopkins University dashboard, which is used by the Daily News and other outlets, has tallied 996,389 deaths from COVID in the U.S. since the beginning of the pandemic.
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