US Covid-19 deaths now exceed total US casualties in all major wars since WWI
2 min readMay 2, 2021
Yes, you read that right.
As of May 1st 2021, total US deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic stood at 573,580. The sum of all battle-related US casualties for all major wars, starting from World War I through the recent Gulf and Afghanistan wars until 2021 was 433,063, according to data assembled from the US Department of Veteran’s Affairs and the US Department of Defense.
The US crossed that grim mark on January 26, 2021 — less than a year after the first reported US death on…