There are encouraging signs that two hard-hit American states are finally starting to turn the corner in their coronavirus catastrophes. But far from leaving America to lick its wounds, the new disease is tightening its grip on the South and the Midwest.
More than 16,600 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University — more than any other country with the exception of Italy.
Deaths continue to mount at a dizzying rate across the country, and the nation’s top epidemiologist warns that if social restrictions are eased too soon, the U.S. could face a new surge of the virus.
But the number of people being hospitalized with COVID-19 in New York and California is now falling. As the Christian world begins an Easter weekend like no other in memory, people of every religion and no religion at all may cling to that in the hope that science, combined with tremendous sacrifice, will eventually get the world through this crisis.
Detailed information from the CDC on coronavirus treatment and prevention.
