The United States has passed Italy to become the country with the most coronavirus deaths. However, as a proportion of the total population in the U.S., virus deaths remain at about one-sixth of those in hard-hit Italy or Spain. More than 18,860 people in the U.S. have died due to complications from the coronavirus as of Saturday, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University dashboard. Friday, the U.S. saw its highest daily death count yet, at 2,108.
They've been born into a world gripped by a viral pandemic that they know nothing about — but that doesn't mean they don't need protection. Babies born at a hospital in Thailand have been fitted with special plastic face shields to protect them from contamination from the coronavirus.
New York’s mix of crushing daily coronavirus deaths mixed with more hopeful signs in other figures continued on Friday. A total of 7,844 New Yorkers have now died due to the virus, including 777 more on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday during a press briefing in Albany.
Krysti Kallek has worked for the past decade in the emergency department at Detroit’s Sinai Grace Hospital. But she’s never experienced anything like Michigan’s coronavirus crisis. The number of patients. The severity of their symptoms. The emergency department is bursting to the seams, day after day, night after night. “We’ve run out of stretchers. We’ve run out of body bags,” said Kallek, who is a nurse.
COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, is now the deadliest disease in the United States, killing more people per day than cancer or heart disease. According to a graph published Tuesday by Dr. Maria Danilychev, who practices in San Diego, COVID-19 is the cause of 1,970 deaths in the U.S. per day. Just last week, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death, averaging around 748 deaths per day, but as the virus has continued to spread, the increase in daily deaths have followed.
A 39-year-old woman took Flight 701 from Doha, Qatar, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in late February, the final leg of her trip home to New York City from Iran. A week later, on March 1, she tested positive for the coronavirus, the first confirmed case in New York City of an outbreak that had already devastated China and parts of Europe.