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Why does the world's leading power have the highest death toll and what lessons are American health specialists learning from the past year?
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.
The United States remains the worst-hit country, with around a fifth of the two million global COVID-19 deaths, and new President Joe Biden has made the fight against the pandemic his administration's top priority.
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.
The country's leading infectious diseases expert, Anthony Fauci, has warned that the worst of the pandemic was likely yet to come, with the death toll rising at an alarming rate in the winter months and after major holiday gatherings.
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.
The US on Sunday had added 47,197 new cases in 24 hours, with 532 additional deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The world's hardest-hit country, the United States, has seen a major coronavirus resurgence since the end of June, adding 2,060 deaths in 24 hours alone Thursday.
The timing of his outing, as the nation approached a milestone in deaths from the pandemic, sparked widespread criticism in the media, with commentators recalling Donald Trump's own past attacks on Barack Obama for playing the game during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.