The number of victims of the coronavirus in the United States has exceeded 500 thousand people. This is evidenced by data from Johns Hopkins University, updated in real time on the website.
According to the information of the university at 01:50 Moscow time on February 23, 500,159 people died in the United States from the disease and its consequences. The country also continues to rank first in the world in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases – over 28.1 million.
Earlier, the TMZ portal calculated that the number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States exceeded the country’s losses in three wars. According to the newspaper, 291 thousand Americans died in World War II, 47.4 thousand soldiers died in Vietnam, and 33.7 thousand American soldiers died in the Korean War.