Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
    World
    Home / World / Americas

    US COVID-19 death toll above 500,000

    By AI HEPING in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-02-23 10:53
    Share
    Share - WeChat
    FILE PHOTO: Refrigerated tractor trailers used to store bodies of deceased people are seen at a temporary morgue, with the Statue of Liberty seen in the background, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, May 13, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]

    With the US crossing the threshold of 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Monday, President Joe Biden delivered brief remarks and held a moment of silence and a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House.

    "That's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth," Biden said in a nationally televised address. "But as we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in America, we remember each person and the life they lived.

    "We have been fighting this pandemic for so long. We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow. We have to resist viewing each life as a statistic," Biden said.

    The COVID-19 death toll matches the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. The US recorded an estimated 405,000 deaths in World War II, 58,000 in the Vietnam War and 36,000 in the Korean War.

    As of Monday evening, the US COVID-19 death toll stood at 500,176, according to Johns Hopkins University. Earlier Monday, Biden ordered all US flags to be flown at half-staff for the remainder of the week, in remembrance of the lives lost.

    After his remarks, the president, first lady Jill Biden, Vice-President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff led a national moment of silence at sundown from outside the White House. They stood in silence as the sun set and a military band played Amazing Grace. Five hundred candles lined the steps of the White House's South Portico. At one point, Biden's wife looked up at him and patted his back, and he seemingly shook his head as though he were saying no.

    "If you look back historically, we've done worse than any other country and we're a highly developed rich country," Dr Anthony Fauci, Biden's chief medical adviser, said on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday. "There were things back then, if you go back and think about what you might have done, the kind of disparate responses of different states, rather than having a unified approach, but you know, it's so tough to go back and try to do a metaphorical autopsy on how things went. It was just bad. It is bad now."

    "When you look at the daily curves and the seven-day averages ... it's dramatically down with a sharp deflection. We got to be really careful and not just say, we're finished now, we're through it. We have variants out there that could actually set us back," Fauci said.

    At the start of a three-day virtual national forum on COVID-19 on Monday, Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talked about seven-day averages.

    She said COVID-19 cases in the US have been declining for five weeks, new hospital admissions are down and the number of reported deaths also continues to fall, with a seven-day average slightly more than 1,900 deaths, dropping 39 percent, compared to the prior seven-day average.

    "This is the lowest seven-day average since the beginning of December, but deaths remain nearly double the number reported during last summer's peak,'' she said.

    Yinmeng Liu in Los Angeles contributed to this story.

    Most Viewed in 24 Hours
    Top
    BACK TO THE TOP
    English
    Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
    License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

    Registration Number: 130349
    FOLLOW US
    中文字幕精品亚洲无线码一区应用| 秋霞无码一区二区| 精品国产v无码大片在线观看| 亚洲乱码中文字幕综合| 97免费人妻无码视频| 成人无码免费一区二区三区| 亚洲自偷自偷偷色无码中文| yy111111电影院少妇影院无码 | 国产精品ⅴ无码大片在线看| 一区二区三区在线观看中文字幕| 蜜臀av无码人妻精品 | 人妻少妇偷人精品无码| 日本无码小泬粉嫩精品图| 亚洲熟妇中文字幕五十中出| 无码人妻精品一区二区蜜桃AV| 日韩精品无码熟人妻视频| 中文字幕乱码人妻无码久久| 日韩欧美一区二区三区中文精品| 在线欧美中文字幕农村电影| 人看的www视频中文字幕| 国产精品亚洲αv天堂无码| 久久亚洲AV成人无码| 玖玖资源站中文字幕在线| 亚洲自偷自偷偷色无码中文| 中文字幕专区高清在线观看| 免费a级毛片无码免费视频| 无码中文字幕日韩专区视频| 亚洲精品无码久久千人斩| 少妇无码AV无码一区| 色多多国产中文字幕在线| 国产资源网中文最新版| 中文字幕一区图| 亚洲日韩AV一区二区三区中文| 中文字幕一区在线观看视频| 亚洲毛片网址在线观看中文字幕| 亚洲精品无码AV中文字幕电影网站| 91天日语中文字幕在线观看| 人妻少妇看A偷人无码电影| 中文字幕日韩欧美| 亚洲精品无码国产| 色AV永久无码影院AV|