The White House announced last week that the U.S. had surpassed one million COVID-19 deaths.

The tally from Johns Hopkins University, considered a go-to data source around the world, has just passed that once unimaginable number.

No other country is even close. CGTN's Benji Hyer reports from Washington. 

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