The US death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 400,000 on Tuesday in the waning hours in office for President Trump, whose handling of the crisis has been judged by public health experts a singular failure.

The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is nearly equal to the number of Americans killed in World II. It is about the population of Tulsa, Okla.; Tampa; or New Orleans. 

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