US President Donald Trump was set to become the only American leader in a century with more than 400,000 deaths from one event on his watch.The US was expected to cross that sombre threshold as early as Monday. It was yet another reminder of how poorly the nation with the world’s largest economy has fared during the coronavirus pandemic that has infected 95 million globally and killed more than 2 million.Not since Woodrow Wilson was in office during the 1918 flu pandemic – which killed about…

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