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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Apr 4, 2020, 03:51 PM Apr 2020

U.S. Death Toll Climbs as Global Coronavirus Cases Top 1.1 Million

Source: Wall Street Journal

Confirmed coronavirus cases shot past 1.1 million globally, with the U.S. firmly at the center of the global pandemic.

The U.S. has more than 278,000 cases, and New York state is hardest hit with more than 113,000 as of Saturday morning. Upward of 7,100 people in the U.S. have died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to Johns Hopkins data. Roughly half of those are in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

“It is like a fire spreading,” he added on Saturday.

Most states now have stay-at-home orders, with governors in Alabama and Missouri announcing such restrictions Friday.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/global-coronavirus-cases-top-11-million-as-us-death-toll-climbs/ar-BB129PeM?li=BBnb7Kz

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U.S. Death Toll Climbs as Global Coronavirus Cases Top 1.1 Million (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Horrific..7100 in U.S. have died according to the article..total cases in U.S. 278,000 Stuart G Apr 2020 #1
Over 8000 now spinbaby Apr 2020 #2
We might as well have a stickied post "Coronavirus Death Toll Reach a New High" Steelrolled Apr 2020 #3
 

Steelrolled

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3. We might as well have a stickied post "Coronavirus Death Toll Reach a New High"
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:31 PM
Apr 2020

Because that will be true for for most days in the foreseeable future.

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