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Coronavirus Deaths In U.S. Exceed Toll From Vietnam War — 4/28/20, 6:53 p.m. ET

The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic has officially surpassed the nation’s death toll from the Vietnam War, with Johns Hopkins University reporting 58,365 confirmed COVID-19 deaths as of Tuesday evening.

The Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System Extract Files contains records of at least 58,220 U.S. military fatalities from the Vietnam War, according …continued .
[Source: Huffington Post]