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The steep rise in coronavirus deaths showed signs of leveling off Monday in New York, according to the Associated Press. The U.S. remained the country reporting the most cases worldwide, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the daily number of new people entering hospitals in the state considered the American epicenter of the pandemic has dropped.
“It’s hopeful,” Cuomo said the same day he extended New York’s stay at home order until April 29. “But it still depends on what we do.”
President Donald Trump, during a Coronavirus Task Force daily media briefing, told reporters that the country would “reopen a lot sooner than people think.” Just minutes after Trump spoke, however, Vice President Mike Pence said the country would face its toughest week — though he did acknowledge a death toll leveling-off could be taking shape. He added that New York, New Jersey and Michigan could be prioritized this week amid expected peaks in hospitalizations and deaths.
Since the first cases were reported in the U.S., more than 10,000 Americans have died — more New Yorkers have now died from COVID-19 than did on 9/11 — as more than 364,720 people across the country have been infected.
At the same time, a record 10 million people have been laid off as a result of efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus. Yet global stocks rallied Monday on the news out of the U.S., with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining more than 1,600 points, or nearly 8%.
More than 1.3 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide and 74,000 have died since the outbreak began this past fall, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
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