U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 500,000 -- Johns Hopkins University

An backhoe drives through Green-Wood Cemetery in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, the United States, Feb. 22, 2021. The United States reached the grim milestone of half a million coronavirus deaths on Monday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)