US tops 5,00,000 virus deaths, matching the toll of 3 wars Updated Feb 23, 2021 | 07:20 IST
The US recorded an estimated 405,000 deaths in World War II, 58,000 in the Vietnam War and 36,000 in the Korean War. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
Baltimore: The COVID-19 death toll in the US has topped 500,000, a staggering number that all but matches the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.
The US recorded an estimated 405,000 deaths in World War II, 58,000 in the Vietnam War and 36,000 in the Korean War.
President Joe Biden held a sunset moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House on Monday and ordered American flags lowered at federal buildings for the next five days.
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In this Feb. 15, 2021, file photo, Patty Trejo, 54, left, looks at her intubated husband, Joseph, in a COVID-19 unit as registered nurse Celina Mande holds a smartphone showing a mariachi band performing for the patient at St. Jude Medical Center, in Fullerton, Calif. Trejo visited her husband for the first time since he was hospitalized more than a month ago. A survivor of COVID-19 herself, she invited a mariachi band to give him courage. Surrounded by hospital staff, family members and friends in the parking lot of the hospital, the band played her husband s favorite song, La mano de Dios, or The Hand of God. He needs to know that I still love him, and he needs to know he s got to fight, said Trejo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. topped 500,000 Monday, a staggering number that all but matches the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University, are about equal to.
After a year that has darkened doorways across the U.S., the pandemic was poised to surpass a milestone that once seemed unimaginable, a reminder of the virus s reach into all corners of the country and communities of every size and makeup.
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