The death toll in New York, the state hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, was "effectively flat" for the second day in a row, Gov. Not long after Cuomo spoke, the United States as a whole had reached a death toll of over 10,000, according to the coronavirus resource centre at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. The U.S. has seen 10,335 die from COVID-19 causes, according to the tally, with national confirmed cases at over 347,000. It represents unwelcome exponential growth in mortality, with the U.S. having climbed over 1,000 deaths on March 26, 11 days ago. The head of a group representing for-profit hospitals said Monday that, on top of the problems in the report, facilities are finding that COVID-19 patients take long to recover.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2020 17:15 UTC