Covid-19: US surpasses 800,000 pandemic deaths

gollum123 writes: More than 800,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus, the highest recorded national death toll from the global pandemic.The milestone means nearly twice as many Americans have died during the pandemic as in World War 2. It comes as the US reached 50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday.Most deaths have been recorded among the unvaccinated and the elderly, and more Americans died in 2021 than in 2020.The elderly have always been the most vulnerable, and despite being the most vaccinated group one in 100 Americans over the age of 65 has died during the pandemic.