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President Biden announces the United States has surpassed 1 million COVID deaths
President Biden marked the “tragic milestone” of 1 million US deaths from COVID-19 Thursday by urging that Congress to approve billions of dollars in new spending to boost America’s pandemic response.
The loss represents about one death for every 327 Americans or more than the entire population of San Francisco or Seattle.
Biden has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff, said the White House, which will on Thursday also host a second global COVID Summit.
“As a nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow,” the president said in an early morning statement. “To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible, as we have with more testing, vaccines, and treatments than ever before. It’s critical that Congress sustain these resources in the coming months.”
“One million empty chairs around the dinner table. Each an irreplaceable loss. Each leaving behind a family, a community and a nation forever changed because of this pandemic,”
Biden added: “To those who are grieving and asking yourself how will you go on without him or what will you do without her, I understand. I know the pain of that black hole in your heart. It is unrelenting. But I also know the ones you love are never truly gone. They will always be with you.”
The milestone has also been reached as the virus is resurging again, with both cases and deaths trending upwards once again after around three straight months of rapidly falling after the winter Omicron surge. The U.S. is recording 86,834 cases a day, a 36 percent jump over the past week. Deaths from the virus have fallen 33 percent during that time, to 381 per day.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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So were the deaths actually from the COVID-19/Wuhan/Fauci virus, or the result of medical malpractice and outright lies due to the money issues. After all a man died from a motorcycle accident and his cause of death was listed as COVID-19. And these types of lies have been exposed on a regular basis. And how many of the deaths are due to the so-called vaccines.