Coronavirus US: Shocking New York Times front page shows America’s crisis

A confronting full-page graphic on the cover of The New York Times has revealed the sheer extent of America’s COVID-19 disaster.

The New York Times published a confronting front page graphic on Sunday.Source:Supplied.

The front page of The New York Times has revealed the horrific human cost of the coronavirus pandemic on the USA.

There are nearly 500,000 dots on the page — meaning more Americans have perished from COVID-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.

The front page of The New York Times for Feb.

The US death toll on the Johns Hopkins University tracking website currently stands at 498,384.

So far, more than 42.8 million Americans have received at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to CDC data.

After the first COVID-19 death in the US was announced in February 2020 it took about three months to pass the 100,000 mark, during a first wave that hit New York particularly hard.

With the US death toll set soon to pass 500,000, Mr Biden said he did not want to give firm predictions of when the crisis will be curbed