When COVID-19 first struck the U.S., the idea of 1 million deaths from the virus seemed unimaginable. But this month the official death toll is expected to hit the dark milestone -- equivalent to the population of San Jose, Calif., being wiped off the map.
On Thursday, Biden released a statement marking the milestone of a million deaths and plans to order flags to half-staff in remembrance.
"When we look back to two years ago, at the beginning of when lives really started to be lost on a mass scale in the U.S., there was so much focus and so much attention on who was dying," Peek said."I think there was a lot of compassion around that. There was a lot of focus on collective mourning." to stressing how much more likely someone is to die of COVID if they don't get a vaccine, the experts suggested the agency may have caused some Americans to view COVID illnesses and deaths, particularly among the unvaccinated, as largely unavoidable.from the virus than fully vaccinated people, COVID-19 is also disproportionately more likely to kill those who -- through no fault of their own -- are of lower socioeconomic status and/or have more underlying medical conditions.
This is at odds with other major disasters in America such as 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, some experts said. In those events, the deaths were not viewed as the victims' fault. Dr. Angela Chen, an attending physician in the emergency department at Mount Sinai Hospital, diagnosed the first COVID-19 patient in New York City in March 2020 and said every time she thought the pandemic was receding, there was another wave or another variant to deal with."I don't think we've really had the time to be able to recover from the significant trauma that the last two years took on us," she said.
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