Medical
workers bring a body to a refrigerated truck outside of the
Brooklyn Hospital on March 31, 2020 in New York City. Due to a
surge in deaths caused by the Coronavirus, hospitals are using
refrigerated trucks as make shift morgues. | Photo by Stephanie
Keith/Getty Images
Worldwide, more than 800,000 people have been infected and over
39,000 people have died, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins
University.
NEW YORK — The U.S. death toll from
the coronavirus climbed past 3,500 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s
official count.
New York’s mammoth convention center started taking patients
to ease the burden on the city’s overwhelmed health system and
the tennis center where the U.S. Open is held was being turned into
a hospital.
Worldwide, more than 800,000 people have been infected and over
39,000 people have died, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins
University. Italy and Spain accounted for half the deaths, while
the U.S. had around 3,550 by midday, eclipsing China’s official
toll of about 3,300.
New York was the nation’s deadliest hot spot, with about 1,550
deaths statewide, the majority of them in New York City.
