President Joe Biden said the country was marking “a tragic milestone” and each death was “an irreplaceable loss”.
It’s the highest official total in the world - although the World Health Organization believes the true death toll may be much higher elsewhere.
The US has also recorded more than 80 million Covid cases, out of a 330 million population.
Public health experts give several reasons for the high US death toll - including high rates of obesity and hypertension, overworked hospital systems, some vaccine hesitancy and a large older population.
A truly appalling statistic …
I blame Trump - his dissemination of misinformation misled millions of American citizens:
@Omah , Sorry Omah, l ain’t mastered the art of “quoting” yet,
I fort clicking reply attached my reply to the post ??
However , it concerns the report that American deaths from covid have passed the 1 million mark ,. It was meant to be
facetious rather than funny ??
Donkeyman!
Probably still doesn’t. Spends most of his weekends ay his home in Delaware staring out the window.
Kamala Harris is giving the most weird speeches too keep an eye out for them, they’re hilarious.
The latest
KAMALA: “We will work together, and continue to work together, to address these issues, to tackle these challenges, and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements, that we will convene to work together…We will work together”