The global death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 50,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. And the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases around the world is expected to soon reach 1 million.
There are now more than 220,000 confirmed cases in the United States, and that number is spiraling upward. Over 5,100 people have died across the country.
Pleading with people to heed social distancing guidelines to try to keep the death toll under 100,000, America’s top infectious disease expert admits “we don’t know exactly how this is going to turn out.”
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic has doubled in a week to a record 6.65 million. As many as 20 million people could be out of work this summer, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute and Bank of America.
“We haven’t, in my lifetime, my parents’ lifetime, seen this. This is truly unprecedented,” said Bill Rodgers, a fellow at The Century Foundation, a think tank.
Detailed information from the CDC on coronavirus treatment and prevention.
