The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to COVID-19. Her husband, Anthony Willis, died Dec. 28, followed by her mother-in-law in early January. My whole world is turned upside down.”AdvertisementThe global death toll was approaching 2.5 million, according to Johns Hopkins. Despite efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines, a widely cited model by the University of Washington projects the U.S. death toll will surpass 589,000 by June 1. “People will be talking about this decades and decades and decades from now,” Fauci said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”

Source: Los Angeles Times February 21, 2021 23:26 UTC