Coronavirus Update: White House plans briefing as U.S. death toll hits 1 million
Just hours after the official U.S. COVID-19 death toll passed the one million mark, the White House is planning to hold its first coronavirus briefing in six weeks and the first to be led by new COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha.
“1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table,” Biden said last week. “As a nation, we must not grow numb to such sorrow. To heal, we must remember. We must remain vigilant against this pandemic and do everything we can to save as many lives as possible.” Cases are higher in nearly every state, but the Northeast and Midwest are being particularly hard hit with case reports in both regions now higher than they were at the peak of last summer’s delta surge. There are concerns that case numbers are even higher, as many people are now testing at home and the data are not being collected.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said the world is still “tinkering” and not transforming the system in a new report published Wednesday.
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