Covid-19 Deaths Hit One Million in the U.S.

Zhenghao Yuan, Staffer|May 17, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 12: Flags at the base of the Washington Monument fly at half staff as the United States nears the 1 millionth death attributed to COVID May 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. U.S. President ordered flags to fly at half-mast through next Monday and said the nation must stay resolved to fight the virus that has “forever changed” the country. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 12: Flags at the base of the Washington Monument fly at half staff as the United States nears the 1 millionth death attributed to COVID May 12, 2022 in Washington, DC. U.S. President ordered flags to fly at half-mast through next Monday and said the nation must stay resolved to fight the virus that has “forever changed” the country. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

On May 12th, 2022, President Biden ordered flags lowered to half mast as Coronavirus deaths reached 1 million in the United States. Biden states that “one million chairs are empty around the dinner table, and each death is an irreplaceable loss.”

The first death from Covid-19 reported in the United States occurred in February 2020. Within two years, the death cases have reached the unbelievable number of 1 million.

At this point, the country needs to reconsider Covid-19 — can it still be considered a “flu-like” virus? What kind of flu can kill one million people in three years?

By 2022, the number of Americans who died as a result of Covid-19 has surpassed the number of deaths in both the Vietnam and Korean wars, the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States, and the American Civil War combined.

There are still a large number of people getting confirmed cases of Covid-19 everyday and people are dying everyday. Fighting Covid-19 is like fighting a war and the measures and policies taken by the current government now are far away from winning the war. The administration should publish more strict and effective policies preventing the spread of Covid, saving the lives of Americans.