JUST IN: More than 200,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US, according to Johns Hopkins University. That's more than the US battle deaths from five wars combined.
Covid-19 has already killed more people in the US than Americans killed in battle during the five most recent wars combined:
▪︎ the Korean War
▪︎ the Vietnam War
▪︎ the Iraq War
▪︎ the War in Afghanistan
▪︎ the Persian Gulf War cnn.it/3hNWrJa
Since the first known US Covid-19 death on February 6, an average of more than 858 people have died from the disease every day.
Many of those victims died without loved ones in hospital rooms. Countless others never had a proper funeral. cnn.it/3hNWrJa
Covid-19 is now the second-leading cause of death in the US, just after heart disease, according to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. cnn.it/3hNWrJa
The loss of life is like suffering the effects of 109 Hurricane Katrinas ...
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... or enduring the 9/11 attacks every day for 66 days.
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