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How quickly the US lost 1 in 1,000 Americans to Covid-19 – CNN
The United States reached a grim milestone as at least 1 in 1,000 Americans have died of Covid-19. Here are some of the numbers and how quickly we arrived.
(CNN)The United States reached a grim milestone on Saturday: 1 in 1,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 since the nation’s first reported infection in late January.
Census Bureau estimates for the last week of December place the US population at around 330,750,000. On Saturday afternoon, the national death toll from Covid-19 reached 331,116, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Covid-19 infections in the US have reached more than 18.7 million.
The first death in the US attributed…
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