More than one million Americans have died from the coronavirus according to the tally of deaths, with the Associated Press stating that the milestone happened overnight, while the Johns Hopkins University tracker will surpass the total sometime Monday.
The numbers are likely low due to the number of people who died early in the pandemic who weren’t tested. Ancillary deaths–people who died of issues other than Covid but couldn’t get care because of the pandemic–will raise the official count of pandemic deaths. The number of people who died would be the equivalent of a 9/11 attack every day for nearly one full year.
The vast majority of fatalities were people over the age of 65, with Black, Hispanic and Native American populations impacted at a far higher rate than white people.