The death toll is the highest confirmed count of coronavirus casualties of any nation in the world.
Despite the wide availability of powerful vaccines that prevent serious illness, more than 2,000 Americans continue to die every day as the more contagious Omicron variant spreads.
Though President Joe Biden promised to declare “independence from the virus” on July 4 of last year, new infections reached a staggering high of more than one million per day in January and have since fallen to under 500,000 a day, itself a previously unthinkable number. Experts say it didn’t have to be this way. Multiple authoritative studies have found that the U.S.
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