Seeing the scale: Visualizing the 100,000 American coronavirus deaths
The number of people who died of COVID-19 is immense. This is how it looks alongside other U.S. health crises, wars and catastrophes that have killed thousands.
It’s nearly a World War I-sized death toll.
The more than 116,000 U.S. soldiers who died more than a century ago is close to how many Americans have been killed so far by COVID-19 since the disease and the coronavirus that causes it arrived in the United States.
The death toll, 104,869 as of 10:30 a.m. June 1, is greater than the populations of more than 2,500 counties across the country and stands as sobering evidence of the deadly nature of the novel coronavirus.
In only four months this year, more Americans died of COVID-19 than those who died of diabetes in all of 2018.
Here are a few ways to understand the staggering death count.
Seeing the scale: Visualizing the 100,000 American coronavirus deaths
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