The U.S. has crossed yet another tragic landmark in the ongoing battle against COVID-19. On Friday, the country surpassed 900,000 deaths from the disease, just two years after the first COVID-19 cluster was reported in Wuhan, China. Public health experts say coming close to the 1 million death mark from the virus is “inevitable.”
“It’s a horrible milestone, it’s a tragic number,” University of Texas at Austin professor and epidemiologist Lauren Ancel Meyers told NPR’s Rob Stein. “It was not inevitable. There are things that we could have done and should have done … to protect those who were most vulnerable. It’s a very sad day.”
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