US President Joe Biden estimated on Friday that the Covid-19 pandemic would kill well over 600,000 in the United States.
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"We are at 400,000 dead, and it should reach much more than 600,000,"
said the new tenant of the White House, who had never mentioned such a heavy toll.
“Families are hungry,”
he continued, before signing a series of executive orders aimed at fighting the food crisis that affects millions of Americans.
"We must act"
, he hammered.
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