US surpasses Italy's coronavirus death toll

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• The US surpassed Italy's coronavirus death toll on Saturday, to become the country with the most recorded coronavirus deaths.
• The US has 18,860 confirmed deaths as of Saturday, while Italy has 18,849, per Johns Hopkins University.
• That's a grim statistic by any account, though the US has five times Italy's population.
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The US has the highest death toll from the coronavirus globally, surpassing Italy on Saturday. 

The death toll from the coronavirus in the US hit 18,860 on Saturday, with 5,820 of those deaths concentrated in New York City, per data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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