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It's been almost four months since the first coronavirus case was confirmed in the US, and over three since the first known virus-related death happened (February 6). In other words, more than 100,000 people have died in 100 days. The virus has claimed lives across all the states in the US. This morning, US President Donald Trump, noted the "very sad milestone" with a tweet: "To all of the families & friends of those who have passed, I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy & love for everything that these great people stood for & represent. God be with you!" An average of approximately 900 Americans have died from Covid-19 since February 6. More than 41% of the deaths in the US have occurred in the states of New York and New Jersey Former US Vice President Joe Biden also tweeted a comforting message to the bereaved families: "There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they're forever fixed in each of our hearts as sh...

As of Sunday, May 10, in the afternoon, the US' death toll from the coronavirus had climbed to 80,033, with the total number of infections in the country exceeding 1.3 million (1,323,051). The states with the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the US are: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Michigan, Connecticut and California. A number of health officials in the US (some members of the White House coronavirus task force) are going into self-quarantine after "low-risk" exposure to a White House aide who tested positive for the virus. These are: Dr. Anthony Fauci - director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control, and Stephen Hahn, the head of the Food and Drug Administration. In Europe, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced that Britain would start relaxing its lockdown measures. Britain has been on lockdown for 7 weeks now. In Austral...

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Covid-19 claimed the lives of close to 1,900 Americans on Saturday, and the total death toll from the virus topped 40,000 by Sunday afternoon (40,585 deaths to be precise). Johns Hopkins University's Covid-19 tracker counts more than 742,000 coronavirus cases in the US and over 2.3 million worldwide. Coronavirus testing in the US stands at 150,000 tests/day, and Harvard researchers have warned that testing must go up to 500,000 people/day if the US economy is to reopen in May. They also said the number of positive tests must decrease, as 20% of those currently tested get positive results. The World Health Organization recommends a 3% to 12% range of positive tests for the economy to reopen.  On Saturday,  White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx presented data showing the US reports 11.24 deaths per 100,000 people, a rate lower than those of countries like Spain, Italy, the UK, the Netherlands,...

According to Johns Hopkins University data, the daily death toll from the coronavirus fell to 1,557, a decrease from Saturday's 1,877 and Friday's 2,108. The US has the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world - 550,000 confirmed cases, and more than 22,000 deaths. The global death toll has surpassed 114,000 deaths and 1.85 million coronavirus cases. Dr. Robert Redfield, director of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was on NBC'S "Today" show and said the US is "nearing the peak right now". "You'll know when you're at the peak when the next day is less than the day before," he said. "We are stabilizing across the country in terms of the state of this outbreak."

On Saturday, April 11, the US became the first country to report more than 2,000 coronavirus deaths in a day. Its death toll is now 18,781. The US has overtaken Italy - which has a death toll of 18,849 - as the country with the most coronavirus deaths. Despite reaching such a grim milestone, Dr. Deborah Birx,  coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, on Friday said that the US has not yet "reached the peak" of the pandemic. On Friday, POTUS Trump said he was creating a second task force dedicated to the reopening of the country. "This is beyond economic," Trump said at the White House on Friday as he explained the group's mission. "I call it the 'opening our country task force' or 'opening our country council,' so we don't get it confused with" the primary White House task force. 

Tuesday, April 7, has been the worst day for the US amid the coronavirus pandemic. 1,736 deaths had been recorded as of 8:00 pm Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. New York State, the worst-affected state accounted for majority of the deaths recorded - 731. New York's total death tally now stands at 5,489. Total coronavirus infections in the state have reached 138,836. The total number of coronavirus cases in the US have exceeded 395,000, and deaths surpassed 12,700. African Americans account for 72% of coronavirus deaths in Chicago, though they make up only 30% of the population. The percentage is slightly lower in Louisiana, with blacks accounting for 70% of the state's coronavirus deaths. Approximately 33% of the population in Louisiana is African American.

As of Monday, April 6th, the coronavirus death toll in the US stands at 10,522. The number of cases as of afternoon, the coronavirus count in the US stands at 357,036. The US has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the world. New York State is the worst hit state in the US, with 131,000 cases. The mayor of New Orleans has asked for help with more refrigeration given that mortuaries in New Orleans are already out of space. Governor Gretchen Whitmer said Michigan hospitals "are running dangerously low on PPE". "At Beaumont hospital, we have less than three days before N95 masks run out. At Henry Ford health system, we have less than four days," Whitmer said. In some hospitals, "there are less than three days until face shields run out, and less than six days until surgical gowns run out," she added.

The US reported the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths in a day on Saturday, April 4, with 1,344 deaths. As of Sunday, April 5, the nationwide death toll has climbed to at least 9,400 deaths, with at least 330,263 cases, according to Worldometers. Today, Anthony S. Fauci, the US' top infectious disease expert on Sunday said the coming week would be a tough one for Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic. “This is going to be a bad week,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, declared in an interview on CBS News's “Face the Nation.” “Unfortunately, if you look at the projection of the curves, of the kinetics of the curves, we're going to continue to see an escalation.”

On Thursday, April 2, the US recorded its highest daily number of deaths from the coronavirus crisis as officials reported more than 1100 new deaths - 1,169 to be precise. This is the highest one-day toll recorded in any country. Its tally of confirmed cases grew to more than 240,000 and deaths surpassed 5,800.  The number of people infected by the coronavirus worldwide has surged above 1 million, and the number who have died of the disease rose above 52,000. On Thursday, US coronavirus taskforce coordinator, Deborah Birx, said "The most important thing is the social distancing and washing your hands, and we don't want people to get an artificial sense of protection because they're behind a mask." She emphasized that though the White House is expected to urge everyone across the country to begin wearing cloth masks or face coverings in public to dampen the spread of the virus, the masks should be considered an additive piece and not a substitute for social dist...

On Wednesday, April 1, the number of coronavirus cases in the US surpassed 210,000. The coronavirus death toll in the US has now grown past 4,700 cases. One of the casualties recorded on Wednesday was a 6-week-old baby in Connecticut. T he director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said an estimated 25% of coronavirus carriers in the US have no symptoms. He told NPR: "Information that we have pretty much confirmed now is that a significant number of individuals that are infected actually remain asymptomatic. That may be as many as 25%." According to CNN, an estimated 90% of the US population now lives in areas that have stay-at-home orders. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, at his daily briefing said his state accounted for more than 83,000 of the total coronavirus cases and 1,941 of the deaths. New Jersey is the second-hardest hit state, with more than 18,000 cases and 267 deaths.

According to state and county health agencies, the coronavirus death toll in the US has exceeded 3,500. New York City is the epicenter or "Ground Zero" of the outbreak in the US. New York has more confirmed cases than any other state, with more than 70,000 cases.  More than half of all confirmed cases in the US were recorded in the past five days. The US recorded its highest daily death toll from the virus on Monday, with more than 500 deaths. The US death toll has surpassed that of China, the break-out zone of the virus. The US has the third highest coronavirus death toll, with Italy and Spain being first and second respectively. Globally, more than 823,000 people have been infected with the coronavirus and more than 40,000 have died.

On Thursday, March 26, the US coronavirus death toll had grown to 1,050, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University. As of Thursday morning, the US counts more than 69,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. The US' death count was 600+ on Tuesday, and 900 on Wednesday, then 1,050 early Thursday. On Wednesday, the global death count from the virus surpassed 21,000. As of now, five other countries have coronavirus death tolls higher than the US - Italy, Spain, China, Iran and France, with Italy's death toll more than doubling that of Spain. On Wednesday, the US Senate agreed on a $2 trillion aid package that includes $150 billion to assist hospitals and medicals centers with the growing number of coronavirus cases.

As of March 24, Johns Hopkins University's data shows that at least 53,972 people have been infected with the coronavirus in the US, and 728 of those have died. Find below the number of cases and deaths in each state, presented in an alphabetical order. Alabama: 242 cases Alaska: 42 cases, 1 death Arizona: 326 cases, 5 deaths Arkansas: 232 cases California: 2,566 cases, 51 deaths Colorado: 912 cases, 11 deaths Connecticut: 618 cases, 12 deaths Delaware: 104 cases Florida: 1,467 cases, 20 deaths Georgia: 1,097 cases, 38 deaths Guam: 32 cases, 1 death Hawaii: 90 cases, 1 death Idaho: 90 cases Illinois: 1,535 cases, 16 deaths Indiana: 367 cases, 12 deaths Iowa: 124 cases Kansas: 100 cases, 2 deaths Kentucky: 162 cases, 4 deaths Louisiana: 1,388 cases, 47 deaths Maine: 118 cases Maryland: 349 cases, 4 deaths Massachusetts: 1,159 cases, 11 deaths Mic...

As of March 24, 2020, the United States of America counts 46,371 cases and 560 deaths. The following states account for the 560 deaths: New York: 154 Washington state: 95 New Jersey: 90 California: 42 Louisiana: 35 Georgia: 25 Michigan: 14 Florida:14 Illinois: 9 Texas: 9 Connecticut: 8 Colorado: 7 Indiana: 7 Virginia: 6 Ohio: 6 Massachusetts: 5 Pennsylvania: 5 Wisconsin: 5 Oregon: 5 Vermont: 5 South Carolina: 3 Kentucky: 3 Maryland: 3 Missouri: 3 District of Columbia: 2 Oklahoma: 2 Tennessee: 2 Arizona: 2 Nevada: 2 Kansas: 2 South Dakota: 1 Mississippi: 1 Minnesota:1 Utah: 1 Globally, more than 378,000 cases of coronavirus have been recorded, with 100,900 people recovering, and more than 16,500 dying.

A video of a man licking grocery store products - a Missouri grocery - has been circulating on social media, and has been repeatedly shared on Twitter. In the clip, the man says 'Who's scared of coronavirus?' before running his tongue along the shelf. He bends downs and licks the toiletry items on the shelf while staring at the camera. The video is captioned: 'I'm a nasty motherf****r.' The man's identity is unknown for now. Many are outraged by the video on social media and are calling for his arrest. Piers Morgan, one of Good Morning Britain's hosts, aired the clip and furiously said: " This is of somebody in America, who went to a supermarket knowing the coronavirus is attacking everyone in the United States and he did this and posted it online. "What I would like to happen to him is I'd like him found, and I am sure they will get him. "I would like him put in prison, immediately. And then I would like him deprived of a...

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 13,000 deaths so far, with the total number of confirmed cases exceeding 311,000. More than 93,000 people have recovered worldwide. As of March 22, the US had 26,747 confirmed coronavirus cases and 340 deaths. It is now the country with the third-highest number of cases as it has overtaken Spain, Iran and Germany. China and Italy have 81,248 cases and 53,578 cases respectively. However the US has a good grip on the pandemic with a much lower number of deaths when compared to the others. States like New York, California, Illinois, and Oregon have enacted stay-at-home orders for residents.

On Friday, March 20, CNN Health reported 15,900 diagnosed coronavirus cases in the U.S. across all 50 states and 208 deaths so far since the coronavirus outbreak in the country. New York State Governor, Andrew Cuomo has ordered that all nonessential workers in the state stay home to slow the spread of the virus in the state and avoid overwhelming the health care system. California and New York allow solo outdoor exercise for now and have made exceptions on the stay-at-home rule for travelers and those who work in hospitals and groceries. New York has the most confirmed coronavirus cases in the country - 7,000. Governor Cuomo said: "This is the most drastic action we can take. "These are not helpful hints. ... There will be a civil fine and mandatory closure for any business that is not in compliance" starting Sunday, Cuomo added.

California Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter to POTUS Trump dated Wednesday, March 18, in which he estimates that more than half of the state of California - 25.5 million people - will get the novel coronavirus over the next eight weeks. "In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days," it read. Confirmed cases are doubling in some parts of California. "In the last 24 hours, we had 126 new COVID-19 cases, a 21 percent increase. In some parts of our state, our case rate is doubling every four days," wrote Newsom. Governor Newsom requested that Trump dispatches the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the Port of Los Angeles through September 1 to help with the influx of expected cases. California has issued a “stay at home” order to its residents in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.

On Wednesday, March 18, the US saw its coronavirus cases surge greatly, with more than 2,000 confirmed new cases. This takes the US' coronavirus tally to 8,500+. At a news conference, Dr. Deborah Birx of the White House's coronavirus task force said: "We will see the number of people diagnosed dramatically increase over the next four to five days." The number of coronavirus in New York State nearly doubled to more than 2,300, with approximately 23% of the cases hospitalized. New York state governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday at a press conference in Albany, said: "Right now, in New York specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in 45 days we could have up to an input of people who need 110,000 beds that compares to our current capacity of 53,000 beds, 37,000 ICU units, ventilators, which compares to a capacity currently of 3,000 ventilators. That’s our main issue." Globally, more than 201,000 cases of coronavirus infections have been report...

On Monday, March 16, POTUS Donald Trump, during a press briefing, urged Americans to avoid gathering in public places and avoid traveling. “If everyone makes this change, or these critical changes and sacrifices now, we will rally together as one nation and we will defeat the virus,” Trump said in the White House briefing room. “We’re going to have a big celebration all together.” He also told reporters that the outbreak could continue into July or August. Trump added that he wasn't considering a nationwide lockdown but that he may take such measures for "certain areas" of the country that had large numbers of cases. “At this point, not nationwide,” the president added. "We may look at certain areas, certain hotspots as they call them."