Our Other Huge Death Toll

An activist displays a rubber fetus during a "March for Family" within the World Congress of Families (WCF) conference in Verona on March 31, 2019. Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

Commentary

The CCP virus death toll in the United States stands at 593,419, by one count, as of May 20. Another has the count at 601,969, while The New York Times reports 587,499. The variation among the counts isn’t great; the magnitude is clear.