The tragic milestone revives debate over the handling of the pandemic.
U.S. coronavirus deaths surged past 100,000 Wednesday, even as President Donald Trump continues urging states across the country to reopen.
The U.S. leads the world in reported confirmed coronavirus cases, with more than 1.6 million American cases since January, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday cited a study by Columbia University researchers that found that if social distancing measures had been implemented one week sooner, the U.S. could have avoided nearly 36,000 deaths nationwide as of early May. “This is a fateful milestone we should have never reached — that could have been avoided,” Biden said in a Twitter video.
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The U.S. surpassed the somber milestone, which far exceeds reported deaths in any other country, as more Americans emerge from lockdowns and President Trump pushes for a faster reopeninghttps://t.co/Ygj0RHbjS6
— POLITICO (@politico) May 27, 2020
The number: https://t.co/eUz9pyMnj9
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 27, 2020
God knows I’ve had my criticisms of Biden but this is how a president should sound right now, and listening to it drives home what a monstrous parody of one we have. https://t.co/VITPq01Pkx
— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) May 28, 2020
Front page of Thursday’s Washington Post pic.twitter.com/hPeN08hXvQ
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 28, 2020
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