More people have died of covid than have been murdered in the United States since 1976 - The Washington Post

…The current covid-19 death toll — a toll that began less than two years ago — is about the same as the number of people who have been murdered since 1975. We've seen as many covid deaths since Jan. 21 as we did murders in 2020 — a year in which murder spiked. We've seen as many deaths from covid-19 since early October of last year as the number of recorded murders since the beginning of 2010...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/31/accepting-covid-deaths/