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Maryland Cremation Services transporter Reggie Elliott brings the remains of a COVID-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States on 24 December 2020. Picture: AFP

Us coronavirus cases

This is why the US has the highest COVID-19 death toll

By AFP

Why does the world's leading power have the highest death toll and what lessons are American health specialists learning from the past year?

  • FILE: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks to the media and tours a newly opened drive through COVID-19 mobile testing center on 13 March 2020 in New Rochelle, New York. Picture: AFP

    NY governor Cuomo's star fades as pandemic pressure builds

    Late last week, Cuomo's top aide admitted in a call with Democratic lawmakers that the state had withheld data because it feared an investigation by Trump's justice department.

    547 days ago
  • Inside the hot zone medical staff monitor and treat sick patients infected with the COVID-19 virus at the UMASS Memorial DCU Center Field Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 13 January 2021. The centre was set up to relieve hospitals during the surge and allow for non critical patents to free up beds at the main hospital locations. Picture: Joseph Prezioso/AFP

    100 million cases worldwide, as US seeks to reset its COVID fight

    The United States, which passed 25 million confirmed cases last weekend, remains the country with the largest outbreak - and the largest death toll of over 420,000.

    567 days ago
  • Sandra Lindsay(L), a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre, is inoculated with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr Michelle Chester at Long Island Jewish Medical Centre on 14 December 2020 in the Queens borough of New York. Picture: AFP.

    Slow vaccine rollouts fuel worry as US logs record daily COVID death toll

    The United States broke its own record for the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 yet again on Tuesday, recording 3,936 fatalities in 24 hours.

    588 days ago
  • A medical staff member exits the COVID-19 intensive care unit on New Year's Day at the United Memorial Medical Center on 1 January 2021 in Houston, Texas, in the United States. Picture: AFP.

    New Year arrives with US hitting 20 million COVID cases

    The US has floundered in its efforts to quell the virus, which is spreading rapidly across the country and has already caused more than 347,000 deaths - by far the highest national death toll.

    592 days ago
  • Hollywood sign. Picture: AFP.

    Hollywood productions shut down again as LA COVID cases soar

    Los Angeles - the nation's most populous county - has emerged as the latest US epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, topping 7,000 COVID hospitalisations for the first time Monday.

    594 days ago
  • Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. Picture: @RoyalFamily/Twitter

    Record US virus cases as reports say British queen to get vaccine soon

    For two weeks, the US has regularly topped 2,000 deaths per day, as it had in the spring at the height of the first wave of the country's outbreak.

    619 days ago
  • FILE: Medical workers remove a body from a refrigerated truck outside of the Brooklyn Hospital on 31 March 2020 in New York City. Due to a surge in deaths caused by the coronavirus, hospitals are using refrigerated trucks to makeshift morgues. Picture: AFP.

    US COVID daily death toll surpasses 2,700, highest since April: monitor

    The new tally of 2,731 fatalities raises the overall known death toll in America to 273,181 since the pandemic started late last year.

    622 days ago
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    US tops 90,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours for first time

    The US has tallied 8.94 million cases of the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic, the most of any country in the world.

    657 days ago
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