US' Covid deaths hit.7M

By Associated Press

Oct 03, 2021 1:00 am

MINNEAPOLIS: The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone Friday (Saturday in Manila), eclipsing 700,000 deaths from Covid-19 just as the surge from the Delta variant is starting to slow down and give overwhelmed hospitals some relief.

It took 3 ½ months for the US to go from 600,000 to 700,000 deaths, driven by the variant's rampant spread through unvaccinated Americans. The death toll is larger than the population of Boston.

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