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U.S. tops 500,000 virus deaths, matching the toll of 3 wars

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The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. topped 500,000 Monday, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.
The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. topped 500,000 Monday, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University, are about equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and greater than that of Miami; Raleigh, North Carolina; or Omaha, Nebraska. And despite the rollout of vaccines since mid-December, a closely watched model from the University of Washington projects more than 589,000 dead by June 1. Johns Hopkins reported a half-million U.S. coronavirus deaths sooner than some other prominent organizations that track the numbers. Johns Hopkins reported 500,071 on Monday, The New York Times had 499,189, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting 497,415 and the COVID Tracking Project put it at 489,147. That’s because official sources don’t always agree; what time and how frequently an organization updates its figures can lead to differences as well.

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