COVID-19 in the Context of Military Deaths in U.S. Wars (as of 13 January 2020)

With thousands of people dying every day, it can be difficult to understand
the scale of the COVID-19 tragedy. In the graph below, I try to offer some
sense of the scale by comparing the pandemic to several of the major wars
fought by U.S. forces over the past two-and-a-half centuries. What we see
is devastation on par with the bloodiest wars in U.S. history.