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US passes 5 million coronavirus cases As school districts across the country struggle to figure out how — or if— to safely reopen schools to teachers and students, the number of coronavirus cases in the US passed 5 million on Sunday, according to the Coronavirus Research Center at Johns Hopkins University. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/9/21360916/us-5-million-coronavirus-cases

The US Navy Hospital Ship Comfort docked in New York City, the epicenter of the US coronavirus outbreak, on Monday. The ship is expected to be operational soon. from https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/us/usns-comfort-hospital-ship-new-york-coronavirus/index.html https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200330064232-nyc-hospital-coronavirus-marquez-pkg-exlarge-169.jpg