United States: COVID-19 Deaths Surpasses Total Lives Lost in Post World War II Conflicts

(Published - May 16, 2020. Data updated - December 11, 2020.) Early in the COVID-19 days, we took a look at US COVID-19 compared to the seasonal flu, but what hadn't yet come to be was the reality of the death toll from this pandemic in the context of other major losses of life, specifically war. Maybe you think it's worse than this, maybe this tells you with what data we have so far on reported COVID-19 deaths, the numbers are greater than you imagined. In either case, we hope this offers you a fresh perspective on what we know to date about the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as measured by individual lives in the United States.