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200,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are doing better than the nation as a whole, but the U.S. reached a tragic benchmark on Tuesday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kneels to look at small flags placed on the grounds of the National Mall by activists from the COVID Memorial Project to mark the deaths of 200,000 lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kneels to look at small flags placed on the grounds of the National Mall by activists from the COVID Memorial Project to mark the deaths of 200,000 lives lost in the U.S. to COVID-19, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Read moreJ. Scott Applewhite / AP