1 out of every 2,000 Americans alive at the start of the pandemic has now died from COVID-19.

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scorched_mirth on August 10th, 2020 at 06:44 UTC »

Gee, that sounds so much worse than 0.05%.

IPromiseImNotADog on August 10th, 2020 at 06:34 UTC »

For some reason the phrasing of this statistic seems far more hard hitting and chilling than the total number of lives lost. I think the total number has now reached a point where I struggle to conceptualize what that huge number of people means to me as an individual.

Lacey1517 on August 10th, 2020 at 06:04 UTC »

That's insane to try to wrap your head around. If there was a lottery with those odds, you'd absolutely buy in.