Biden's Chief of Staff: 500K Deaths due to Coronavirus by Next Month

Hours ago, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming chief of staff Ron Klain expected his country to hit 500,000 COVID-19 deaths next month.

Klain made the comment in an online interview with the Washington Post, as his country already has its death toll surpassing 400,000 cases.

In the last hours, authorities also reported more infection cases, bringing the total confirmed toll to 24,102,429 cases, while fatalities now reaches 401,856 people.

In the last hours, President-elect Biden expected also things to get worse, while planning a vaccination offensive that calls for greatly expanding access to the vaccine and using a wartime law to increase production.

In a speech on Friday in Wilmington, Del., Biden told Americans that “we remain in a very dark winter,” allowing, “the honest truth is this: Things will get worse before they get better.”

“I told you,” he said, “I’ll always level with you.” But he also tried to offer hope for an end to a pandemic that thousands of American lives and frayed the country’s economic and social fabric.

“Our plan is as clear as it is bold: get more people vaccinated for free, create more places for them to get vaccinated, mobilize more medical teams to get the shots in people’s arms, increase supply and get it out the door as soon as possible,” he said, calling it “one of the most challenging operation efforts ever undertaken by our country.”