If two large planes crashed every day in the US, killing everyone on board, the nation would be despondent.
If the US suffered a loss of life on the scale of the 9/11 attacks -- 50 times over -- the tragedy would be incomprehensible.
But that's how many lives coronavirus has claimed in the US since this pandemic started just six months ago.
More than 150,000 people have died since the
first known US death in February. That means every day, an average of more than 850 Americans have died from Covid-19.