US DEATHS MORE THAN IN 3 BATTLES

Even as the US is administering vaccines and deaths are slowing, the sheer loss of a half a million people -- 500,000 – has the Americans wallowing in miser y. No other countr y has counted so many fatalities on account of the pandemic. More Americans have perished from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined, says the New York Times.