Tuesday, 23 February 2021

US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000

US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000

The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 — roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta. The figure compiled by Johns Hopkins University surpasses the number of people who died in 2019 of chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, flu and pneumonia combined.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-pandemics-public-health-kansas-city-michael-brown-d940129b78c861003287e0ddb0389308?source=Snapzu

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