Joe Biden was just 29 years old when he suddenly lost his first wife, Neilia, and their young daughter, Naomi, in a car crash in 1972.
In 2015, another of Biden’s children, his 46 year old son Beau, who had been following in his father’s political footsteps, died of brain cancer.
Throughout his political career, Biden has spoken openly about those losses. Today, as president, he did so again, faced with a national tragedy whose scale is hard to fathom: 500,000 people dead from coronavirus in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
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'We must resist becoming numb': Biden marks 500,000 Covid deaths with national address – live | US news | The Guardian
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