The US stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. Her husband, Anthony Willis, died Dec. 28, followed by her mother-in-law in early January. My whole world is turned upside-down.”The global death toll was approaching 2.5 million, according to Johns Hopkins. Despite efforts to administer coronavirus vaccines, a widely cited model by the University of Washington projects the US 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.”___Associated Press Writer Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Missouri, contributed to this report.

Source: Egypt Independent February 21, 2021 21:11 UTC