美国已有50多万人对这种新型冠状病毒检测呈阳性，而COVID-19的死亡人数现在刚刚超过2万人。超过意大利成为全球人数最多的国家截至周六。
根据约翰·霍普金斯大学维护的一个追踪系统，自爆发以来，美国已有超过524，000例冠状病毒确诊病例。唐纳德·特朗普总统警告说，本周和可能的下一周将会特别艰难，而且有可能——根据卫生计量与评估研究所(IHME)的最新预测——到8月4日，60，415人可能死于COVID-19。
每一次死亡都不仅仅是一个统计数字——用纽约州长安德鲁·科莫的话说，这是一张脸，60，000人仍然是重大的生命损失。但这大约是官方最初预计死亡人数的一半。
冠状病毒特别工作组协调员黛博拉·比克斯博士和疾病控制与预防中心主任罗伯特·雷德菲尔德博士说，修订后的数据证明了医疗保健系统和人们遵循的社会距离准则。
“我的意思是，这是美国人民承诺的结果，”雷德菲尔德在周三的新闻发布会上说。“在这里值得关注的是，美国公众在保护弱势群体时是如何改变他们的行为的。”
选民周二在威斯康星州密尔沃基市的河畔大学高中排队进入投票站。美国超过50万人对新的冠状病毒检测呈阳性。
疫情已经改变了全国数百万人的生活。对许多人来说，像去办公室或出去吃饭这样的普通活动已经成为过去。家庭已经彼此分离，拥抱爱人似乎是一个陌生的概念。
人类天生就是社会性动物，人们开始对“新常态”感到沮丧。但是官员们敦促美国人继续致力于社会距离措施，努力拯救生命。
特朗普周三表示:“如果每个美国人继续严格遵守社会距离准则，我们就能打败隐形敌人，拯救无数生命，而且我们能更快地做到。”。“在某个时候，这种情况会消失。我们可以坐在一起。”
该病毒在纽约造成的死亡人数最多，截至周六已有超过18万病例。该州COVID-19死亡总人数目前超过8，600人。
纽约州长安德鲁·科莫在一次新闻发布会上说:“好消息是增长曲线正在继续变平。”简报周六。“住院人数似乎达到了一个顶点，这个顶点似乎是一个平台，这是许多模型预测的，它不会是直线上升和直线下降。这将是直线上升，你计时最高的数字，然后你平稳一段时间，这看起来像我们正在做的。”
纽约的病例是中国的两倍多，但官员们开始质疑中国的数据是否准确。从一开始，人们就质疑该国的透明能力。然而，世界卫生组织(世卫组织)支持中国的回应，并赞扬他们的信息共享。
佛罗里达州参议员里克·斯科特呼吁国会调查世卫组织在“传播错误信息和帮助共产主义中国掩盖全球流行病”中的作用亚利桑那州参议员玛莎·麦克萨利声称，世卫组织总干事特德罗斯·阿德诺姆·格布雷耶苏斯博士应该就该组织如何应对疫情提出辞职。
“这是不负责任的，他们在这里的所作所为是不合理的，而我们却在全球范围内让人们死去，”麦克萨利告诉福克斯商业频道。
特朗普回应了对联合国机构的类似批评，4月7日在推特上写道，世卫组织“真的搞砸了”，并发布了一个“错误的建议”，要求各国保持边境开放。
谁说的新闻周刊它对特朗普的推文“无可奉告”。
美国的疫情预计将在4月达到高峰。国家过敏和传染病研究所所长安东尼·福西博士说，恢复“正常”生活依赖于病毒。病例和住院趋势向Fauci发出信号，表明该国可能正朝着曲线变平的方向发展，但他表示，如果病毒“开始试图抬头”，人们必须做好抑制病毒的准备
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MORE THAN HALF A MILLION AMERICANS HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
More than half a million people in the United States have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, while the death toll from COVID-19 is now just over 20,000, surpassing Italy's total for the largest number globally as of Saturday.
Since the outbreak began, there have been over 524,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S., according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. President Donald Trump warned that this week and potentially next will be particularly tough and it's possible--according to the most recent projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)--that 60,415 people could die from COVID-19 by August 4.
Every death is more than a statistic--it's a face, as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo phrased it, and 60,000 people is still a significant loss of life. But it's about half the number of deaths officials initially projected.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coronavirus Task Force coordinator, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the revised numbers were a testament to the health care system and people following social distancing guidelines.
"I mean, this is a consequence of the commitment of the American people," Redfield said during Wednesday's press briefing. "What's been remarkable to watch here is how the American public has changed their behavior when it protects the vulnerable."
Voters wait in line to enter a polling place at Riverside University High School on Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More than 500,000 people in the United States have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The outbreak has altered life for millions of people across the country. For many, ordinary activities such as going into an office or out to dinner have become a thing of the past. Families have been separated from each other and hugging a loved one seems like a foreign concept.
Human beings are inherently social creatures and people have started to grow frustrated with the "new normal." But officials are urging Americans to remain dedicated to social distancing measures in an effort to save lives.
"If every American continues to strictly adhere to social distancing guidelines, we can defeat the invisible enemy and save countless lives and we can do it much more quickly," Trump said on Wednesday. "At some point, that's going away. We'll be able to sit next to each other."
The virus has taken the largest toll on New York, where there have been more than 180,000 cases as of Saturday. The total number of COVID-19 deaths in that state currently stands at over 8,600.
"The good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten," said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo during a press briefing Saturday. "The number of hospitalizations appears to have hit an apex and the apex appears to be a plateau which is what many of the models predicted, that it wasn't going to be straight up and straight down. It was going to be straight up, you time the top number and then you plateau for a period of time and that looks like what we are doing."
New York has had more than double the cases than China, where the outbreak originated, but officials have started to question if China's numbers are accurate. Since the outset, people questioned that country's ability to be transparent. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stood by China's response and praised their information sharing.
Florida Senator Rick Scott called for Congress to investigate WHO's role in "promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic." Arizona Senator Martha McSally claimed WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus should resign over how the organization handled the outbreak.
"It's just irresponsible, it's unconscionable what they have done here while we have people dying across the globe," McSally told Fox Business.
Trump echoed similar criticism of the United Nations agency, writing on Twitter on April 7 that WHO "really blew it" and issued a "faulty recommendation" for countries to keep their borders open.
WHO told Newsweek it had "no comment" on Trump's tweet.
America's outbreak is expected to peak in April. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said getting back to "normal" life is dependent on the virus. Case and hospitalization trends signaled to Fauci that the country could be heading toward flattening the curve, but said people must be prepared to suppress the virus if it "starts to try and rear its ugly head."
Updated 7:41 PM ET
