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Eagles' Jeffrey Lurie on USA's COVID-19 Efforts: 'We Are a Tragic Embarrassment'

Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie didn't mince words when talking about the United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic Sunday.

"We have four percent of the world's population, 21 percent of the fatalities. There's a lot to figure out," he said, per Albert Breer of The MMQB. "... We're the wealthiest country in the world—21 percent of the deaths? We're an embarrassment. A tragic embarrassment."

To date, the United States has registered 5.9 million known cases of the coronavirus and 182,982 recorded deaths, per CNN.com. Both marks are the most in the world.