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CNN local time on the 22nd reported that Biden ordered the flag to be flown at half-mast to mourn 500,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States.
Biden will also make a speech, the White House said, “state the tremendous harm the pandemic has done to the American people and so many families, and will show the American people the power to reverse the pandemic, by working together, following public health guidelines, and getting vaccinated as soon as possible if eligible.”
On the 22nd local time, according to Johns Hopkins University, the cumulative number of coronavirus deaths in the United States exceeded 500,000.