How many people die a day in the US due to the coronavirus? Data from Johns Hopkins University shows that more than 20,000 people have died from the coronavirus in the US, making it the country with the world's highest coronavirus death toll.
The US death toll on Saturday soared to 20,389, exceeding the record of Italy, which is reporting 19,468 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.
On Friday, at least 2,074 deaths were reported in the US, the biggest increase in the number of coronavirus deaths the country has ever recorded since the beginning of the outbreak.
Meanwhile, at least 524,903 people have tested positive for COVID-19.
New York
Out of the 2,074 deaths reported on Friday, 783 were from the New York state, bringing the statewide death figure to 8,627, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
This was considered a slight decline from the state's all-time high in single-day fatalities, which took place Wednesday with 799 deaths. Meanwhile, there were 777 deaths recorded on Thursday.
"You can see that the number is somewhat stabilizing, but it is stabilizing at a horrific rate," Cuomo said. "These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain."
However, Cuomo also shared that the state's curve "is continuing to flatten."
"The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex, and the apex appears to be a plateau," the governor said, where numbers will stabilize for a period before dropping.
Cuomo said that the hospitalization rate and the number of intensive-care admissions have also decreased. "Still people getting infected," he said, "still people going into the hospital, but again, a lower rate of increase."
Reopening the country
The US witnessed a peak in its daily death toll, according to Dr. Chris Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. He came up with the model the White House is applying to evaluate the peak of coronavirus cases.
"We re-run the model, basically, almost every night -- and the new returns from different states are suggesting different peaks in different states, but at the national level we seem to be pretty much close to the peak," he said Friday.
