The United States had the lowest single-day total of COVID-19 deaths since March 29, according to the data aggregation website Worldometers.
The U.S. documented 750 deaths from the coronavirus on May 10, the lowest number since March 29, when there were 497 reported deaths from the virus. Coronavirus deaths peaked in the U.S. on April 21, when a recorded 2,683 people died from COVID-19, according to Worldometers.
“Lowest number of new cases and lowest number of new deaths since the end of March,” Worldometers wrote of Sunday’s figures.
The U.S. recorded its first COVID-19 death on Feb. 29. Since then, 80,000 people have died after contracting the coronavirus, but daily deaths have been declining since May 6.
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Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, warned Sunday that between 60% and 70% of people in the U.S. would contract COVID-19.
“We have to understand that we’re riding this tiger, we’re not directing it. This virus is going to do what it’s going to do,” he told Meet The Press. “What we can do is only nibble at the edges, and I think it’s not a good message to send to the public that we can control this virus in a meaningful way. And what I mean by that — even though, as Jeffrey just said, some countries have been able to suppress this somewhat — Korea’s now got a major outbreak problem occurring. Germany has had an increase in cases.”
“What we have to tell people honestly, what they want to hear, they don’t want it sugarcoated, and they don’t want it coated in fear. But somewhere between now and tomorrow, next year, we’re going to see 60% to 70% of Americans ultimately infected with this virus.”
