U.S. Hits Half a Million COVID Deaths Even as Cases Decline
Posted on AllSides February 22nd, 2021
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Despite a downward trend in coronavirus cases and increasing vaccination rollouts across the nation, the virus has claimed more than half a million American lives.
On Monday, the U.S. COVID-19 death toll officially surpassed 500,000—a figure no other country has reached and one that underscores the Trump administration's mixed messages about the pandemic.
"If you look back historically, we've done worse than any other country, and we're a highly developed rich country," the nation's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said during a Monday appearance on Good Morning America.
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