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'Find purpose': Biden marks 500K COVID-19 deaths with poignant address to the nation

By NBC News
| February 23, 2021

President Joe Biden marked the grim milestone of 500,000 lives lost to the Covid-19 pandemic in a brief but poignant address to the nation Monday evening, drawing on his own personal tragedies as a rhetorical salve for a country still combating the deadly disease.

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