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D.C. National Cathedral Bells Toll 500 Times to Mark 500,000 U.S. Covid Deaths
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1:20Now PlayingThe landmark Washington National Cathedral marked COVID-19's grim death toll of an estimated 500,000 Americans lost to the disease by tolling its cathedral bell 500 times Monday afternoon.
The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. all but matched the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.
The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University, are about equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and greater than that of Miami; Raleigh, North Carolina; or Omaha, Nebraska.
And despite the rollout of vaccines since mid-December, a closely watched model from the University of Washington projects more than 589,000 dead by June 1.
The U.S. toll is by far the highest reported in the world, accounting for 20 percent of the nearly 2.5 million coronavirus deaths globally, though the true numbers are thought to be significantly greater, in part because of the many cases that were overlooked, especially early in the outbreak.
President Joe Biden is ordering all U.S. flags lowered at federal buildings for the next five days in order to memorialize the deaths from the coronavirus.
Biden has also asked all Americans to observe a moment of silence during a candlelight service at sundown.
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