President Joe Biden has started work on his next big battle — stopping the coronavirus pandemic

Joe Biden has taken office as President of the United States a year after the pandemic first came to the country’s shores.

On Donald Trump’s last day in office, the death toll hit 400,000 — about as many American lives as were lost in World War II, and double the number the former president flagged last March.

President Biden began his inauguration with the first national memorial to those lives lost. Iconic structures like the Empire State Building and Space Needle were lit up, while church bells rang across the country.

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It was a message to Americans: a new regime is here, and it has the coronavirus in its sights.

Forget Biden vs Trump — it’s Biden vs coronavirus from here on in.

“We are entering what may well be the toughest…