COVID-19: US becomes first country to record half a million deaths

The US has become the first country to record more than half a million deaths with coronavirus.

There have now been 500,071 COVID-related fatalities in the country, and more than 28 million people have been infected, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus tracker

Sky's Cordelia Lynch has been speaking to some of the people coping with loss in the US.

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