The United States has surpassed 100,000 deaths from those infected with the coronavirus. It’s been just three months since the first death was reported. The official count is now over 101,000, but the real number is likely much higher.

The rate that people are dying has slowed, but there is no end in sight. NPR writes:

The tally of U.S. deaths — in a country with fewer than 5% of the world’s inhabitants — now accounts for nearly one-third of all the known lives lost worldwide to the pandemic.

According to a mortality analysis by Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center, about 6% of the nearly 1.7 million people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in the U.S. have now succumbed to the disease.

Senator Kamala Harris released a statement saying:

“My heart aches for those who have lost loved ones to this horrific illness. As we remember the more than 100,000 people in the United States who we have lost to COVID-19, we must recognize that much of this suffering was preventable and commit to speaking the truth about what we face in the months to come.”

We have yet to see a statement from Donald Trump about this grim milestone. Harris adds:

“This administration’s glaring failures made this pandemic worse than it had to be. They downplayed the threat and failed to secure the testing kits, supplies, and personal protective equipment needed to save lives. The president himself has spread dangerous misinformation and conflicting messages; and has made clear that he is more concerned with deflecting blame and scoring political points than fulfilling his responsibility to protect public health. The Trump administration must start listening to the experts and following the science. Lives depend on it.”

Here are how some news outlets are covering this somber news.