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As Trump heads for the door, US records 400,000th virus death, nearing WWII toll
Wednesday January 20, 2021
The US death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed 400,000 in the waning hours in office for President Donald Trump, whose handling of the crisis has been judged by public health experts a singular failure.
The United States has reached 400,000 COVID deaths in less than 12 months. (Photo: AP: Patrick Semansky)
The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is nearly equal to the number of Americans killed in World War II. It is equivalent to the sea of humanity that was at Woodstock in 1969.
It took 13 weeks to jump from 200,000…
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