![]() ![]() While the 1 million needless deaths are the most tragic element of the pandemic, millions and possibly tens of millions more Americans now suffer from Long COVID as a result of their illness. The pandemic is now all but ignored by the entire political establishment and the corporate media, as a potential new surge of the more infectious, vaccine-resistant and virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant looms in the background and all federal pandemic funding has completely dried up. One would imagine that a series of solemn memorials, tributes and serious discussions on the pandemic would be held in the days and weeks leading up to this milestone. In response to this monumental social catastrophe and the approaching milestone of 1 million deaths, everywhere there is massive official indifference. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sons, daughters, the elderly, people in the prime of life, youth who had hardly even begun to live, have all been struck down by COVID-19. Lost among the statistics of mass deaths are countless individual tragedies. Ventilator tubes attached to a COVID-19 patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles, Nov. At this point, the cumulative total decline in life expectancy is likely approaching five years. In the first year of the pandemic alone, life expectancy in the US dropped by an astounding 1.8 years, the largest decrease since World War II. On average, 2,735 Americans have died from this preventable disease every two days over the past two years, close to the total of 2,977 people killed in the September 11 terror attacks. In the span of two years, more Americans have died from COVID-19 than the cumulative death toll of every war fought by the United States in the 20th century. Over 200,000 children have lost a parent or primary caregiver to the disease. One out of every 100 people above 65 years old has been killed by COVID-19. The catastrophic loss of life and broader societal impacts of the pandemic are unprecedented in American history. ![]() Estimates of excess deaths caused directly or indirectly by the pandemic place the true US death toll at over 1.2 million. Due to the absence of uniform data, the exact death toll from COVID-19 and the moment it will pass 1 million on other data trackers is unknown, but by the end of April every tracker will likely surpass this horrific milestone. By this evening, the official COVID-19 death toll in the United States will surpass 1 million, according to the Worldometers tracker.
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