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After the 100,000th death from COVID-19, Joe Biden delivered a solemn but hopeful message to Americans
05.28.20
A few hours after Johns Hopkins University recorded the 100,000th death from the COVID-19 pandemic, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released a solemn speech.
"My fellow Americans, there are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they are forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments," said Biden, speaking directly to the camera from his office.
<p>"One-hundred thousand lives have been lost to this virus here in the United States alone. Each one leaving behind a family that will never again be whole," the former vice president said.</p><p>"It's made all the worse by knowing that this is a fateful milestone we should have never reached — that could have been avoided," he continued.</p><p>He then <a href="https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Social-distancing-a-week-earlier-could-have-saved-15285629.php" target="_blank">cited a study that showed </a>if the Trump Administration would have acted one week earlier, over 36,000 American lives could have been saved.</p><p>Biden concluded his message sharing some wisdom he's learned after overcoming with the traumatizing loss of two children and a spouse.</p><p>"I know there's nothing I, or anyone else, can say or do to dull the sharpness of the pain you feel right now, but I can promise you from experience," Biden said, "the day will come when the memory of your loved one will being a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eyes."</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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