500,000 people have died because of COVID-19 in the United States so far which is higher than in any other country in the world.
This means that more Americans have died from COVID-19 than they did on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.
More than 28.1 million Americans have been infected which is also a global record.
President Joe Biden has labelled this a grim milestone.
Biden has ordered all flags on federal properties to be lowered to half mast for the next five days.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, 2.4 million people have died because of COVID-19 worldwide.
There have been 112 million cases. 63 million people have recovered from the virus.
[Source: New York Times]
