{"id":120880,"date":"2021-02-08T12:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120880"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:57:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:57:47","slug":"bidens-vietnam-60k-americans-dead-from-covid-19-in-first-three-weeks-of-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-vietnam-60k-americans-dead-from-covid-19-in-first-three-weeks-of-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"BIDEN\u2019S VIETNAM: 60K Americans Dead from COVID-19 in First Three Weeks of Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-vietnam-60k-americans-dead-from-covid-19-in-first-three-weeks-of-presidency%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120880&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/biden-vietnam-e1612802127652.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>More Americans have died from COVID-19 in the first three weeks of Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency than during the entire Vietnam War, a grim milestone for a leader who vowed&nbsp;to make ending the pandemic&nbsp;&#8220;the first priority, the second priority, and the third priority&#8221; of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/biden-covid-death-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death count<\/a> since Biden took office on Jan. 20 surpassed 60,000 over the weekend. That is more than the 58,220 American soldiers who died in the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1975.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Satire<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/bidens-vietnam-60k-americans-dead-from-covid-19-in-first-three-weeks-of-presidency\/\"><strong>BIDEN&#8217;S VIETNAM: 60K Americans Dead from COVID-19 in First Three Weeks of Presidency<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/joe-biden-cocaine-mitch\/\"><strong>Report: Joe Biden Won&#8217;t Tolerate Disrespect for Mitch McConnell<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/washington-post-opinion-struggle\/\"><strong>Washington Post Opinion Columnists Struggle to Accept Reality of Trump&#8217;s Defeat<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Numerous media outlets marked the occasion when COVID-19 deaths surpassed Vietnam War deaths under former president Donald Trump. NPR, among others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/04\/28\/846701304\/pandemic-death-toll-in-u-s-now-exceeds-vietnam-wars-u-s-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In not even three months since the first&nbsp;known&nbsp;U.S. deaths from COVID-19, more lives have now been lost to the coronavirus pandemic on U.S. soil than the 58,220 Americans who died over nearly two decades in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>New York<\/em> magazine correspondent Olivia Nuzzi noted the milestone during a press conference in April 2020. &#8220;If&nbsp;an&nbsp;American president loses more Americans over&nbsp;the&nbsp;course&nbsp;of&nbsp;six weeks than died&nbsp;in the&nbsp;entirety&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Vietnam War,&nbsp;does he deserve&nbsp;to be&nbsp;reelected?&#8221; she asked Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Because&nbsp;the <em>Washington<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Free Beacon<\/em> appears to be one of the only media outlets whose dedication to the truth compels us to&nbsp;diligently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/biden-covid-death-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">track<\/a>&nbsp;COVID-19 deaths under Biden, the milestone has received far less coverage this time around.<\/p>\n<p>To put that number into greater context: The COVID-19 death toll on Biden&#8217;s watch is the equivalent of 25 Pearl Harbors and 20 9\/11s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Americans have died from COVID-19 in the first three weeks of Joe Biden&#8217;s presidency than during the entire Vietnam War, a grim milestone for a leader who vowed\u00a0to make &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892884,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3884,3706,3774,3642,3668,5603],"class_list":["post-120880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-americans","tag-bidens","tag-covid-19","tag-dead","tag-from","tag-vietnam"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}