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US military crushed the COVID-19 curve

By Jamie McIntyre
Published June 5, 2020 3:00am ET
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US military crushed the COVID-19 curve
A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara. | U.S. Army photo by Spc. Zayid Ballesteros

On May 27, the day the number of confirmed deaths in the United States attributed to COVID-19 topped 100,000, the U.S. military posted an equally stunning statistic.

Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, of its 1.2 million active-duty troops, only one had succumbed to the deadly virus.

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