Dr. Christine Choi, a resident at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, one of four public hospitals in Los Angeles County, tends to Covid-19 patients in a specially constructed isolation area. | Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the massive loss of life is “almost unbelievable.”

On Monday, just over a year after the first known Covid-19 death in the United States, the US surpassed 500,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, said Sunday that the death toll is “almost unbelievable.”

“But it’s true,” Fauci told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Sunday. “This is a devastating pandemic. And it’s historic. People will be talking about this decades and decades and decades from now.”

Today’s front page of the New York Times: Each dot represents one death from COVID-19 in