PENNSYLVANIA: As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the United States recorded its first confirmed case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had the virus “totally under control.”

ANOTHER VICTIM Relatives and friends of Lydia Nunez, a coronavirus fatality, carry her coffin after a necrological service at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California on Jan. 17, 2021 (January 18 in Manila). The United States death toll from the coronavirus has exceeded 400,000 as of January 20. AP PHOTO

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