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US COVID-19 death toll passes 500,000
The United States has passed 500,000 coronavirus-related deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
Key points:
- The University of Washington projects more than 589,000 dead by June 1
- Not enough people have been inoculated for the vaccine to be making a significant difference
- The number of deaths has exceeded US deaths in both WWII and the Vietnam War
It comes nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic up-ended the country with duelling public health and economic crises.
“It’s nothing like we have ever been through in the last 102 years, since the 1918 influenza pandemic,” the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, told CNN.
The US topped 400,000 deaths just over a month ago, on January 20.
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