LOS ANGELES - As the United States reached another grim and devastating milestone of 500,000 deaths this week due to the coronavirus, Dr.
Anthony Fauci — the nation’s leading infectious disease expert — called the COVID-19 death toll "stunning in its magnitude" and suggested that it should never have happened in such a "rich and sophisticated" nation.RELATED: ‘Grim and horrific milestone’: Biden marks more than 500K American lives lost to COVID-19In an interview with Reuters on Tuesday, Fauci said that other nations and governments — including Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union — also found difficulty minimizing the spread of the virus."However, that does not explain how a rich and sophisticated country can have the most.