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US COVID-19 deaths hit 1 million – roughly equal to combined fatalities in Civil War, World War II

Nearly two and a half years into the coronavirus pandemic, the death toll due to COVID-19 in the United States hit 1 million on Monday. The confirmed number of dead is equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days. It is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined. It’s as if Boston and Pittsburgh were wiped out.

The death toll less than two and a half years into the outbreak is based on death certificate data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. However, the real number of lives lost to COVID-19, either directly or indirectly, as a result, the disruption of the health care system in the world’s richest country, is believed to be far higher.

The US has the highest reported COVID-19 death toll of any country, though health experts have long suspected that the real number of deaths in places such as Brazil and Russia is higher than the official figures.

The milestone comes more than three months after the US reached 9,00,000 deaths. The pace has slowed since a harrowing winter surge fueled by the omicron variant.

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