US President Biden warns US Covid-19 deaths will top 500,000 next month

While consequential for those affected, the measures offer a shadow of the relief included in Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid-19 aid plan

US President Joe Biden warned the nation to prepare for its darkest days in the yearlong pandemic, predicting that as many as 100,000 more Americans will die over the next month as he overhauls the federal coronavirus response and presses Congress for more aid. More than 400,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States since the pandemic began.
 
But Biden’s plea for the nation to assume a “wartime” footing did not immediately sway a recalcitrant Congress, where Republican opposition to his $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan only hardened. Even some liberal Democrats made clear they would not