evidence: 1 million COVID deaths: Pandemic's tragic toll in U.S. extends far beyond the numbers As the U.S. faces the tragic milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19, President Biden says the "irreplaceable losses" of the pandemic must not be forgotten. [...] A provisional count of COVID-19 deaths by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reached 1,000,292 on Monday, based on an analysis of death certificate records published by the agency's National Center for Health Statistics.