Joe Biden Pays Tribute To 500,000 Americans Lost Due To Covid-19: “Today, We Mark A Truly Grim, Heartbreaking Milestone”

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Joe Biden marked the loss of 500,000 Americans due to Covid-19 in a very personal White House speech that delved into the process of getting through loss, sorrow and grief.“Today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone,” Biden said. “500,071 dead.

That’s more Americans who’ve died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War combined. That’s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth.”Drawing on his own personal experience of losing loved ones, Biden said, “I know what it’s like to not be there when it happens.

I know what it is like when you are there, holding their hands, look in your eye and they slip away, that black hole in your chest, you feel like you are being sucked into