In less than three months, the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed that of America’s nine-year war in Southeast Asia
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We’ve removed our paywall from essential coronavirus news stories. Become a subscriber to support our journalists. Subscribe now. On Tuesday, the pandemic in the United States reached a grim milestone, as more Americans have now died from the coronavirus than in the Vietnam War. In less three months since the first confirmed death, COVID-19 has killed 58,365 people in the United States according to Johns Hopkins University, surpassing the 58,220 U.S. military deaths in Vietnam.
While far more Vietnamese military and civilians were killed in the nine-year conflict — as many as 612,000 civilians and 1.26 million soldiers were killed in total — the coronavirus has quickly outpaced the lethality of the United States’ most costly war since WWII. As NPR notes, the most deadly year for U.S. troops in Vietnam was 1968, when 16,8999 soldiers were killed for every 100,000 U.S. residents; the rate of the coronavirus is almost double that.
On Monday, New York’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi raised the comparison to President Trump: “If an American president loses more Americans over the course of six weeks than died in the entirety of the Vietnam war does he deserve to be reelected?” Though Trump has responded to difficult questions at the coronavirus press conferences by attacking reporters, he responded directly, comparing the death toll to the “original projections” without social distancing of 2.2 million.
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