The number of patients who became victims of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the United States exceeded the total combat losses of the American army during World War II. Business Insider reports citing the Johns Hopkins Institute data.
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, the United States lost more than 291.5 thousand soldiers in battles. By the evening of December 10, the total number of deaths from causes associated with coronavirus in the country exceeded 291.7 thousand people. It is noted that during the Second World War, another 113 thousand dead Americans are attributed to non-combat losses.
At the end of April this year it became known that losses from coronavirus in The United States has exceeded the Vietnam War death toll. Later in May, deaths due to COVID-19 surpassed all U.S. military casualties since 1945. The current figure is almost half of the losses in the Civil War – the bloodiest in American history, in which about 620 thousand people died.