Covid-19: Over Two Million Around the World Have Died From the Virus
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Feb. 21, 2021, 11:24 a.m. ETFeb. 21, 2021, 11:24 a.m. ET President-elect Joe Biden plans a big vaccination push, despite limited supplies. The C.D.C. warns that the new variant could send U.S. infections skyrocketing.
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Two million dead.
It is more people than call the state of Nebraska home and about equal to the population of Slovenia. It is roughly as many people who are estimated to have died in the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. And it is more than the total number killed in the decades of Soviet and U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan combined.
“Unfortunately, the actions and rhetoric following the election, especially during this past week, threaten to tarnish these and other historic legacies of this administration,” Azar wrote in the letter that was obtained by the New York Times and then tweeted by the secretary. “The attacks on the Capitol were an assault on our democracy and on the tradition of peaceful transitions of power that the United States of America first brought to the world.”
Other Cabinet secretaries, including Elaine Chao of transportation and Betsy DeVos, have resigned their posts, citing the Capitol raid as the administration gets ready to give way to President-elect Joseph R. Biden and his team on Wednesday.