The US death toll from the coronavirus on Saturday eclipsed Italy's for the highest in the world, surpassing 20,000, reports The Associated Press.
About half the deaths in the US are in the New York metropolitan area, where hospitalizations are nevertheless slowing and other indicators suggest lockdowns and social distancing are "flattening the curve" of infections and staving off the doomsday scenarios of just a week or two ago.
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