Coronavirus update: U.S. death toll on verge of 200,000, as new cases rose by more than 50,000 in a day
September 22, 2020 at 13:08 PM EDT
The number of deaths as a result of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose closer to 1 million globally, and was on the verge of surpassing 200,000 in the United States, prompting new shutdown measures in the U.K., even as President Donald Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that young people are virtually immune.
