About 1.22 million people have died of COVID in the U.S., CDC data shows. Tuesday marks five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global outbreak of COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

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more people died in 2020 and 2021 in the United States than during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was widely called the most-deadly in recorded history. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

Five years after the novel coronavirus emerged, historians see echoes of other great illnesses, and legacies that are unlike any of them. Credit...Katherine Lam Supported by By Gina Kolata Five ...

The WHO was created after WW II to promote and to expand public health coverage, especially in undeveloped nations, to prevent the spreading of disease, to support research on potential pandemics ...