Pres. Joe Biden delivers remarks in memory of 500k lost to COVID-19 | USA TODAY

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hold a moment of silence and candle lighting ceremony for the 500,000 Americans dead from COVID-19.
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The U.S. once again crossed a somber COVID threshold much faster than any country in the world.

Less than a year after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, the U.S. recorded its 500,000th death Monday, according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard. That’s more than twice the COVID-19 fatalities registered in Brazil, which ranks second on the list.

President Joe Biden will hold a moment of silence and a candle-lighting service Monday evening at the White House to mark the enormous loss of life.

The endless hours of toiling amid death and suffering have taken a heavy toll on health care workers, who are exhausted and frustrated with those who won’t follow public health guidelines aimed at curbing transmission of the virus.

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41 comments

  1. Who could dislike a moment of silence for 500,000 dead? People who are ignorant or uneducated? People who don’t understand epidemiology or virology? People incapable of empathy? People who believe conspiracy theories? Who knows. Just be grateful they are not the parents who raised you or the children you raised.

  2. Kevin Sorbo –
    If you think 18 is too young to own a rifle
    But 16-year-olds are mature enough to vote
    15-year-olds should be able to get abortions without parental consent
    And 7-year-olds are capable of deciding their own gender
    YOU are the problem.

    Kevin Sorbo – Name another country that taxes their citizens only to send the money to America. I’ll wait.

    Lauren Boebert – Protecting and defending the Constitution doesn’t mean trying to rewrite the parts you don’t like.

  3. Pass legislation to help us the people! Your elite friends and bankers got $3.7Tril!

    Where is our help?? $2k? $1400? Universal healthcare during a pandemic?

    Come on man!

    1. @Doug Cote hollow words from a hollow leader. Disingenuous. Calls Chinese genocide a cultural norm. Plays Mario kart and sleep early. What a skeez. Can’t even talk. You see his word slip up during his MSC speech? 😤

  4. Patriots will band together and defeat this pandemic together. We as a people need to work together for success. You can’t be a patriot and hate half or more of our population.

    1. This is not a pandemic….. Not even one percent deaths .. we have had diseases worse then this and we didn’t shut down or do mandatory masks. Unreal!!!!!!!

  5. What I find funny I’m a citizen of the united States thru the RFID chip 🤭🤣😂 THANKS UNITED NATIONS for helping me with the RFID chip 🎊🎉

    1. It’s spelled “lose”. None of what you wrote is accurate, but anyone can Google to get those facts. Among them that, we surpassed 400, 000 deaths on Jan. 19, 2021-not even a year into the pandemic here.

  6. Thank you President Biden. Your respect for those lost is greatly appreciated . It’s been four long years since we had compassion and empathy in the White House. America is back. Our soul is returning. Heart. Dignity. Caring. May God continue to bless you.

    1. Where is his compassion for the Americans that are still waiting for their stimulus check? He’s a lying crook. You are one delusional person George.

    2. @Vincent .A lmao what type of superpower do you think he has? he’s only been a president for like a month. man you guys are stupid

    3. @Master Knight President Joe Biden said Americans will get $2,000 stimulus checks if Democrats win both Georgia runoffs.

    1. Lmao. Yeah he’s so empathetic. By the way where’s his empathy for the millions of Americans waiting for that stimulus check he promised? Let’s not forget about the Americans that are still alive that are suffering because they have no money. What a lying crook.

    2. He doesn’t care, he’s in the process of destroying and selling out the country. He likes telling stories and playing with people’s emotions. Wake up and look at him when he’s talking, does he seem sincere? He’s laughing inside.

    1. @Leviticus Cornwall yeah but if it were Trump it wouldn’t matter if he quoted someone… So let’s apply both formulas.

  7. He can only do this speech through a teleprompter!! Never takes vicious comments from the Fake media.What a flipping joke

  8. Keep this ratio going lads. Downvote the heck out of it, show this media establishment we don’t want what they sold the other idiots.

  9. Where’s our stimulus checks and $15 minimum wage you promised us? You know where you can stick your fake compassion!

  10. People wanted joe biden as president well they got what they wanted now they can enjoy that fake careless president of theirs it’s all their fault they can blame themselves Good thing i don’t vote never did i never voted for donald trump nor did i vote for joe biden, joe biden is not a good president, people are dying from the virus and people have died from the cold and are suffering in the cold and what is joe biden doing to help? NOTHING cause he is trash. But it is peoples fault for voting for him.

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