The US hit the historic and tragic milestone of over 500,000 COVID-19 deaths on Monday
At the White House Joe Biden ordered flags to half staff for five days of mourning and held a candlelit moment of silence, praying for the dead
500 candles were lit on the South Portico of the White House where Biden led a moment s silence with First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff
He spoke just before it to mourn the lost, and say that the nation must also support those left behind You re going to be okay, he said, speaking directly to those who have lost someone to COVID, referencing his own experience of loss
New study correlates failure of Trump policies with massive death toll
, one of the oldest and most respected science and medical academic journals in the United States, issued an exhaustive study on Feb. 10 lambasting the Trump administration’s public health response to COVID-19 and alleging that at least 40% of U.S. deaths were avoidable.
According to the report, entitled “Public policy and health in the Trump era,” former President Donald Trump “exploited low and middle-income white people’s anger over their deteriorating life prospects to [mobilize] racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health.”
Two days before Christmas, COVID-19 vaccines went into the arms of Maui County’s first responders. That’s when the Maui District Health Office and partners
The US hit the historic and tragic milestone of over 500,000 COVID-19 deaths on Monday
Dr Anthony Fauci warned that Americans could be wearing masks into 2022 despite infections falling 60% in a month
More than 28 million COVID-19 cases have rocked US and the running total of lives lost was is about 498,901
Cases and hospitalizations have been declining for the past five weeks, but Dr Fauci warned the US cannot declare victory because the threat of variants could turn the tide It s nothing like we have ever been through in the last 102 years, since 1918 influenza pandemic, Fauci said
However, Fauci also said the United States will be approaching a degree of normality by the end of the year