From Staff Reports Northwestern News
More than 500,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, which has now become one of the biggest causes of death in U.S. history.
The nation’s health officials reported the grim milestone Monday as the nation’s top elected officials participated in ceremonies mourning the dead.
“Today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone: 500,071 dead,” President Joe Biden said in a Monday news release. “That’s more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War One, World War Two, and the Vietnam War combined. That’s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth.”
The United States has had more than 29 million COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began nearly one year ago.
“It’s not Democrats and Republicans who are dying from the virus. It’s our fellow Americans,” Biden said.
“It’s our neighbors and our friends — our mothers, our fathers, our sons, our daughters, husbands, wives.”