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COVID toll hits 800,000 to close out year filled with death

The U.S. on Tuesday hit another depressing pandemic milestone — 800,000 deaths.

(AP Photo| Charlie Neibergall) Steve Grove, a chaplain at Hennepin County Medical Center, prays in a COVID-19 patient's room, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, in Minneapolis. He acknowledged that he sometimes gets mad at unvaccinated patients because it "didn’t have to be this way. And now there’s a mess that perhaps was avoidable.”