WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.com – Plague Covid-19 in the United States (US) has killed more than 500,000 people since the pandemic began, according to a Monday tally at Johns Hopkins University.
That figure is the number of victims who died corona virus highest worldwide.
Until this news is uploaded, coronavirus in the US has claimed 500,071 lives or more than double Brazil with the second highest number of victims.
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“This is terrible, going down in history. We haven’t seen anything close to this in over 100 years, since the 1918 influenza pandemic,” said Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden on the program. Meet The Press NBC on Sunday (21/2/2021), quoted from AFP.
The patient’s first death corona in the US occurred in February 2020, and about 3 months later 100,000 victims died. New York at the time was the hardest hit.
Then in the next four months, 200,000 patients died, and less than three months later, a total of 300,000 residents of “Uncle Sam’s country” lost their lives.
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Case Covid-19 in the United States soaring drastically this winter, when people vacation indoors.
Total cases coronavirus in the United States until Monday yesterday was 28 million more.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says more than 61 million people have been injected with at least one dose of the vaccine in the US, with about 18 million citizens having already been given two full doses.
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Biden has made a priority for 100 million people to be vaccinated in the first 100 days.
Of the 100 million targets, he felt it would be easy to achieve because now an average of 1.7 million vaccinations are being carried out a day.
Furthermore, Biden said, he could not predict when the outbreak corona in the United States can be resolved, but 600 million doses of vaccine sufficient for most of the population are expected to be available by the end of July.
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