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22 Feb, 5 tweets, 4 min read
U.S. surpasses 500,000 coronavirus deaths, according to a Reuters tally reut.rs/3scNm20
More people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. than any other country in the world.

With 4% of the world's population, the U.S. has seen 20% of all COVID deaths and one of the highest rates of deaths per 100,000 residents reut.rs/3umJ9e2
No health crisis has devastated the U.S. like COVID-19 since the 1918 Spanish influenza, triggering the biggest decline in U.S. life expectancy since World War Two and ranking among the biggest killers in U.S. history: reut.rs/2ZF1mpd
See more photos from our coronavirus coverage across America reut.rs/3btRhB0 @ReutersPictures
500,000 lives lost

@ReutersGraphics illustrates the scale of the COVID-19 death toll in the United States tmsnrt.rs/2ORCE2D

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