U.S. Covid Death Toll Hits 1 Million, According To CDC

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While a number of outlets have reported the milestone as already surpassed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday made it official: More than one million Americans have lost their lives in cases related to Covid-19.

The real toll is likely much higher.The death toll is “equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 336 days,” according to The Associated Press, which confirmed the news today. “It is roughly equal to how many Americans died in the Civil War and World War II combined.”The number is roughly in like with an assessment made by CDC’s top disease modelers in February, 2020, as reported that March by the New York Times, but was likely unimaginable to most laypeople.NYT:Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios.

That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said.

As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.In the same month, the nation saw its first death related to the virus. At the time, a confident-sounding President Donald Trump said, “Additional cases in the United States are likely.