The U.S. on Wednesday recorded its 1 millionth Covid death, a once unthinkable toll even for the country with the world’s highest recorded toll from the virus.
Highlights
- The U.S.
- has the world’s highest recorded death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic.
- The number is equivalent to the population of San Jose, California, the 10th largest city in the United States.
- Brazil has recorded just over 660,000 confirmed Covid deaths; Peru has the highest number.
- “We had the opportunity to be a shining example to the rest of the world about how to deal with the pandemic, and we didn’t do that,” said Nico Montero, a 17-year-old in Pennsylvania.
- “It’s an exponential number of other people that are walking around with a small hole in their heart,” said Diana Ordonez.