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NewsColony More Americans killed by COVID-19 in three months than in the entire Vietnam War The coronavirus pandemic has been more deadly for Americans than the Vietnam War with linked deaths across the country in the past three months now higher than the U.S. death toll in the two-decade-long combat. Coronavirus deaths in the United States reached to 58,233 on Tuesday night, according to Reuters, meaning almost 1,000 more Americans have died of coronavirus since the start of the year than casualties suffered by the U.S. in Vietnam between 1955 and 1975. There were 58,220 American deaths in Vietnam, according to NPR . There have been 17.6 American deaths per 100,000 inhabitants because of the outbreak while even in the deadliest year of the Vietnam War there was only half this, with 8.5 American deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in 1968. The grim new milestone comes as John Hopkins University confirms that the United States has reached over one million infections and the death rate...