this is deja vu news live from berlin and the united states passes 500000 coronavirus stats. to remember the persian we've launched largely lived and loved ones are left behind. candles like the white house as president biden leads a nation in mourning but he warns months of suffering are still at. also coming up

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a pandemic claimed its 1st known victim in the u.s. president joe biden led the nation in honoring the debt. today marks a truly grew heart breaking milestone. 500071. dead. that's more americans who died in one year to spend a minute. than a war a war one war 2 in the vietnam war combined that's more lives lost to this virus and any other nation on earth but as we acknowledge the scale of this mass death in america remember each person in the life they live let's talk more about this so with peter chin hong is a professor of medicine and infectious disease specialist at the university of

california san francisco peter thank you for joining us let's talk about this tragic milestone 500000 deaths this is one the highest death tolls per capita in the world there's been many phases of this pandemic but what do you think the u.s. has got wrong in tackling the coppa 1900. while to me i think there were several things the 1st was that there was no national strategy for most of the year and secondly there was no alignment of science and politics for much of the year we acted like 50 different countries instead of 50 different states of one country because of viruses and no. you know any borders it was very easy exploiting this this synchrony in the way that states handle this virus at the same time if you look at the situation right now the u.s. is one of the leading countries when it comes to vaccinations are up 13 percent of people have already received.