Covid-19: Over Two Million Around the World Have Died From the Virus
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Feb. 21, 2021, 11:24 a.m. ETFeb. 21, 2021, 11:24 a.m. ET President-elect Joe Biden plans a big vaccination push, despite limited supplies. The C.D.C. warns that the new variant could send U.S. infections skyrocketing.
Here’s what you need to know:
Two million dead.
It is more people than call the state of Nebraska home and about equal to the population of Slovenia. It is roughly as many people who are estimated to have died in the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. And it is more than the total number killed in the decades of Soviet and U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan combined.