Virus claims the lives of more than 100,000 in the USPallbearers, who were among only 10 allowed mourners, walk the casket for internment at the funeral for Larry Hammond, who died from the coronavirus, at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans on April 22. The U.S. surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths. But it represents the stark reality that more Americans have died from the virus that emerged from Wuhan in China in December than from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. That’s not prudent, and that’s inviting a situation that could get out of control,” he said during an interview Wednesday on CNN. Europe has recorded about 170,000 deaths, while the U.S. reached more than 100,000 in less than four months.

Source: The Standard May 28, 2020 01:41 UTC