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Why the US has the highest Covid-19 death toll
deaths from Covid-19 on Monday, a year since announcing its first known death from the virus on February 29, 2020 in the Seattle area.Why does the world's leading power have the highest death toll and what lessons are American health specialists learning from the past year?Also Read | India Inc gears up to go back to officeHere, infectious disease experts Joseph Masci and Michele Halpern provide answers to some of the key questions.Masci, 70, is one of the leaders of Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, which was at the heart of New York's epidemic.Halpern is a specialist at the Montefiore hospital group in New Rochelle, a New York suburb where the epidemic arrived in force in February 2020.Why has the United States been hit so hard? Prior to this