Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States reached a grim milestone surpassing 900,000 deaths from the virus on Friday following a surge of the highly-infectious omicron variant, less than two months after reaching 800,000.According to the latest data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, 901,388 Americans have succumbed to the coronavirus over the last two years, more than the populations of major American cities such as San Francisco, Indianapolis and Charlotte.The bleak toll comes 13 months into the United States’ vaccination campaign. To date, 212,481,465 Americans, or 64.3% of the country, are fully vaccinated.
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