The United States passed the grim milestone of 700,000 fatalities due to coronavirus during the pandemic Friday evening, as the country trudges through the third wave of the virus, strengthened with the delta variant, ABC News reports.
The death toll of the coronavirus pandemic makes it the deadliest episode in American history, surpassing the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which took about 630,000 lives in the US. The US death toll of World War II: about 400,000.