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If 500,000 people traveled in transport buses with a capacity of 51, they would have to have 9,804 buses.
They had covered a 152.4-kilometer stretch of highway, corresponding to the stretch from New York to Philadelphia, the Washington Post writes in a grand corona special Monday night.
If 500,000 names were engraved on the black granite wall in honor of the officials who died in the Vietnam War in Washington, the wall would have to be 26.5 meters high, 23.5 meters higher than it is today.
The parallels are drawn in relation to the grim milestone America passed on Monday night:
The country has now recorded 511,130 deaths as a result of the coronavirus, the Worldometer summary shows.
I think the children’s train will be canceled
– Worse since the Spanish flu
“This is the worst we have been through in 102 years, since the Spanish flu in 1918. It is really a terrible situation that we have been through, and we are still going through,” said the Union’s head of US infections. schedule on Sunday.
In 1918, 46 percent more people died in the United States than the previous year. At the same time, tens of thousands of Americans died in World War I that year.
The White House said Friday it would commemorate the grim Coronamile.
“Biden will use his voice and platform to honor people who have lost their lives, and families who still suffer, at a very difficult time in this country,” said spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
The United States has registered a total of 28,761,908 cases of coronavirus infection, 49,049 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Worldometers summary.
The virus has had a full year of life expectancy in the country, the largest decline since World War II, writes Reuters.
See light at the end of the tunnel
Despite the grim numbers, Fauci believes that life may begin to return to normal during the fall or winter of 2021.
“This may be the case,” Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN on Sunday.
– If vaccination of the majority of the country’s inhabitants is combined with reducing the spread of the infection to a very, very low level, I think that in general we can say that masks are not necessary, he continued.
The United States has also had a trend of declining infections recently. At the same time, new hospital admissions of COVID-19 patients have started to decline.
– contempt
Epidemiologist Caitlin M. Rivers of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has previously stated that the trend is good news.
“We’re definitely going to go down, but I’m worried that the new varieties will give us another twist in late February or early March,” Rivers told the New York Times in January.
Fauci is clear about the additional strategy now:
“We want to get the baseline of infection rates very, very low before we can begin to believe that we are out of the woods,” he told NBC News’s “Meet the Press” program on Sunday.
