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Row after row. Acre after acre. Hundreds of thousands of flags beneath the watchful eye of the Washington Monument are in honor of the Americans lost their lives to COVID-19. The 670,000 flags each represent a mother, a son, a friend, a neighbor. Erin Hathaway and her husband traveled from upstate New York to be at the National Mall and…

As India struggles to keep up with record-breaking daily coronavirus cases, one man has taken it upon himself to disinfect neighborhoods in Mumbai dressed as a clown.

Air Force veteran Diane Drewes spent months hoping to receive a COVID-19 immunization. But her daughter says the call offering an appointment came only when Drewes was dying of the illness. Drewes is among an unknown number of people who wanted a vaccine but died before they could get it. More than 245,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the coronavirus was the third leading cause of death in the United States last year.

In July 2020, Ra Friedman started an art project to honor those who died from COVID-19. Now, the art project has expanded to include over one hundred portraits, and counting.

Abigail Breslin of “Zombieland” and “Scream Queens” fame is mourning the death of her father, Michael Breslin, following his death from COVID-19.

Family members told officers the man and woman were quarantining in their home in the St. Louis area.

The United States has reached the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to NBC News.

More Americans are making the decision to have their terminally ill loved ones die at home rather than in nursing home and hospice settings.

As vaccine demands continue to outstrip supply countrywide, the United States is expecting to see over half a million COVID-19 deaths within the next three weeks. Just over one million people are getting vaccinated a day, according to the CDC.

According to NBC News’ tally, December has already been the worst month of the pandemic, both in terms of overall case load and death toll.

More than 3,300 COVID-19 deaths were recorded Tuesday, with health officials warning more grim days are ahead.

Mexico is the now the fourth country to record 100,000 deaths due to COVID-19.

The United States surpassed more than 11 million COVID-19 on Sunday, as the third wave of the virus continued its uncontrolled spread, new restrictions were introduced, and Americans weighed whether and how they can celebrate Thanksgiving.

Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U_S_ are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.”

While the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths passed 200,000 over the weekend, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by President Donald Trump, saying, “We were looking at the prospect of 2 million people potentially perishing from the coronavirus in this country.” When questioned about the president’s comments to journalist Bob Woodward in which...

The U.S. surpassed its 200,000th pandemic death and losses are taking shape in heartbreaking ways.

A prediction made in March — unfathomable at the time — has come to pass.

The Justice Department sent letters to governors of New York and three other Democratic-led states seeking data on whether they violated federal law by ordering public nursing homes to accept recovering COVID-19 patients from hospitals.

Another 296 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus and 10 more people with the virus have died, Massachusetts health officials said Tuesday. There have now been 8,529 deaths and 112,969 cases reported in the state, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive, on average, is up slightly to 1.9%,…