At some point in the coming weeks, the total number of US deaths from Covid-19 will reach 1mn. For reference, the American Civil War took twice as long to kill three quarters as many people, and that figure is an upward revision on older estimates. All the nation’s external wars have together claimed around 700,000 US personnel over almost 250 years.
在未來幾周的某個時候,美國死于新冠的總人數將達到100萬。作為參考,美國內戰造成的死亡人數是這個數字的四分之三(這還是采用了對美國內戰死亡人數早先估算進行上修后的數字),而且美國內戰持續的時間兩倍于新冠疫情已經持續的時間。在近250年時間里,美國在海外參與的所有戰爭總計奪走大約70萬美國人的生命。
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