As of May 12, 2022 the United States officially recorded one million confirmed deaths from Covid-19.
This is the world’s highest reported death toll from the disease.
President Biden marked the milestone of one million US deaths to the coronavirus pandemic with one million empty chairs.
Flags were lowered at half-mast.
Covid-19 is the third leading cause of death in the US behind heart disease and cancer, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 429,000 people have died of Covid-19 since vaccination became available for all adults in the United States in April 2021.
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