500,000 deaths.
Roughly one year since the first known coronavirus-related death was reported in the U.S., an unfathomable toll is nearing — the loss of half a million people. As of Sunday, the pandemic death toll was 497,403, higher than in any other country. More Americans have died from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.
The emptiness still lingers for many. “You walk in and it smells like her,” said Keith Bartram, who lost his mother, LiHong Burdick, to the virus. Above, the December funeral of a member of the Standing Rock Tribe in South Dakota who died from Covid-19.
The milestone comes with a light, however faint, at the end of the tunnel. New virus cases are down sharply, deaths are slowing, and vaccines are steadily being administered. President Biden said the U.S. could near normalcy by year’s end but warned that new virus variants could slow progress.
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Me: We are at this point in time, because the only people who can publish articles in newspapers and social media are so called “experts” and simple ways to kill off Coronavirus, or any other virus for that matter, easily and cost free, are not allowed to be published as an alternative, worth trying, because everything revolves around vaccines for the body and Covid and the money to be earned in the preparation and selling of vaccines, bearing in mind that a further 75 billion dollars has just been donated to vaccine research………..which speaks volumes of who gets the money and becomes richer than ever.
