After 8 months since the first covid-19 infection was confirmed in the United States, the country exceeds 200,000 deaths.
Which means that it harbors 21% of the global deaths caused by this pathogen.
According to estimates by medical experts, the coronavirus would have killed 858 people per day in the US since the first recorded death.
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