US Person predicted this level of mortality months ago, given the obvious undercounting in official tallies. But now even the official counts confirm the USA has reached a million deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Officially, the SARS CoV-2 virus has killed more Americans than the H1N1 virus did in 1918-20. It was the third leading cause of death in 2020 and likely in 2021 behind cancer and heart disease And it is not over. This chart shows the death toll occurred in 5 waves beginning with the outbreak in early 2020:
By the third wave the disparity in death rates between political partisans became clear. Counties that voted for Donald Trump were suffering substantially more deaths from the coronavirus pandemic than those that voted for Biden. By the fourth wave, caused by the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variants, the variance in death rate was four times higher in "red" counties. Vaccination rates are highly correlated with partisanship. The USA is #1in pandemic deaths.