The U.S. reached a grim milestone on Monday as the novel coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000. Globally, COVID-19 has been linked to …
The U. S. reached a grim milestone on Monday as the novel coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000. Globally, COVID-19 has been linked to more than 283,000 fatalities, and over 4.1 million cases. The number of deaths in the U. S. is more than double that of the U. K., which has the second-highest fatalities nationwide, according to the Johns Hopkins University heat map.
The news comes as a number of states begin reopening their economies to a number of businesses, while in other regions, where lockdown measures have largely been left in place, unrest has given way to protest. Ohio, Washington, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Maryland have seen people take to the streets to urge local officials to reopen the economy, but the concern is doing so would cause a spike in new cases.
