A Tragic Milestone: One Million COVID-19 Deaths in the U.S.

Many of the deaths were preventable had more people got vaccinated

White Flags around the Washington Monument, Photo by Ted Eytan via Flickr CC

The U.S. is nearing 1 million COVID-19 deaths in the coming days. Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus data tracker reports 999,009 deaths on Thursday, May 12, 2022. “One million empty chairs around the family dinner table,” President Joe Biden said in…