US Coronavirus Cases Top Half A Million

More than 500,000 coronavirus cases have been reported across the U.S. as of Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as officials weigh plans on how and when to ease measures aimed at curbing the virus’s spread.
The U.S. has seen more than 18,700 deaths from the virus, while the number of recovered patients has surpassed 29,000, according to Johns Hopkins. The number of total cases has swelled to more than half a million less than 12 weeks after the first case was identified in the U.S.
Roughly 45 percent of the reported cases have come from New York and New Jersey alone, though states such as Michigan, California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania have also seen their number of confirmed cases stretch into the tens of thousands.