As the United States honors its veterans on Memorial Day Monday, restrictions have been lifted at the nation's cemeteries dedicated to veterans for vaccinated individuals.
From vaccination rates to case counts, here are some important COVID-19 statistics you should know from May 2021.As the United Stat honors its veterans on Memorial Day Monday, restrictions have been lifted at the nation's cemeteries dedicated to veterans for vaccinated individuals.
It comes as the VA reported last Monday that there were no new COVID deaths at its medical centers throughout the country, a first since March 18, 2020. VAshows more than 12,000 have died and more than 2.5 million have been inoculated against COVID-19 out of the roughly 9 million veterans enrolled in the agency's programs.
But others, especially the families of veterans who survived the horrors of war, only to die from COVID, Memorial Day can reopen barely healed wounds. Charles Lowell, an Air Force veteran who served during the Vietnam War, was among 76 residents of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home who died in one of America's deadliest coronavirus outbreaks last year in a long-term care facility.
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