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With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden on Monday confronted head-on the country’s once-unimaginable loss half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic as he tried to strike a balance between mourning and hope.
The US hit the historic and tragic milestone of over 500,000 COVID-19 deaths on Monday
At the White House Joe Biden ordered flags to half staff for five days of mourning and held a candlelit moment of silence, praying for the dead
500 candles were lit on the South Portico of the White House where Biden led a moment s silence with First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff
He spoke just before it to mourn the lost, and say that the nation must also support those left behind You re going to be okay, he said, speaking directly to those who have lost someone to COVID, referencing his own experience of loss
President Biden on Monday mourned the more than 500,000 Americans lost to the novel coronavirus and called for unity in the battle against the pandemic.
A president whose life has been marked by family tragedy speaks in deeply personal terms as he tries to comfort the huge number of Americans whose lives have been forever changed.