California will ponder starting the next school year in July, the U.S. reached yet another troubling milestone Tuesday as confirmed coronavirus cases topped 1 million, and more grim news could potentially be ahead.
Some states have outlined their plans to gradually reopen, prompting a model to project an increased number of deaths from the first wave of the virus.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said his state is still weeks away from modifying its stay-at-home orders, but he does envision public school students making up for lost time by returning to the classrooms early in the next academic year.
The million-plus figure in U.S. cases of COVID-19, which represents nearly one-third of the global total, does not accurately portray the actual amount considering that mild and moderate cases are lagging, warned Dr. Tom Ingelsby, director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Also Tuesday, the Navy's Blue Angels and Air Force's Thunderbirds flew over the New York area to honor essential workers on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
The coronavirus had killed nearly 217,000 people globally as of Tuesday night, according to Johns Hopkins University data, with more than 3.1 million confirmed cases worldwide. The U.S. has reported more than 1 million confirmed cases with more than 58,300 deaths, surpassing the 58,220 Americans killed in the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975.
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