U.S. surpasses 300,000 coronavirus deaths

COVID-19 testing site.
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The United States on Monday surpassed 300,000 confirmed COVID-19-related deaths, data from Johns Hopkins University reveals.

The U.S. is the first country in the world to cross the grim threshold since the pandemic began earlier this year — indeed, no other country has yet recorded 200,000 deaths.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.