President Joe Biden will commemorate one million American deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday as part of the second Global COVID-19 Summit. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not yet recorded one million COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., multiple independent counts have claimed that the U.S. has already passed that mark. One million dead: The U.S. death toll from the covid-19 pandemic will hit that unfathomable number this week. Under his watch, the U.S. has continued to lead the world in COVID-19 deaths, becoming the first country in the world to cross the one million-death threshold. (RELATED: The FDA Finally Admits We Should Treat COVID-19 Like The Flu)At least 5.4 million deaths have been recorded worldwide and attributed to the virus.

Source: Washington Post May 12, 2022 20:42 UTC