President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergise a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus as he led the US in marking the "tragic milestone" of 1 million deaths in America. He ordered flags lowered to half-staff and warned against complacency around the globe."This pandemic isn't over," Biden declared at the second global pandemic summit. He spoke solemnly of the once-unthinkable US toll: "1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table."The coronavirus has killed more than 999,000 people in the US and at least 6.2 million people globally since it emerged in late 2019, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Other counts, including by the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association, have the toll at 1 million.
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