FILE PHOTO: A clinician takes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) blood samples to be tested at the Roseland Community Hospital on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
(Reuters) – U.S. coronavirus deaths topped 49,000 on Thursday as the number of lives lost in April rises by an average of 2,000 a day, according to a Reuters tally.
At that rate, U.S. deaths will reach 50,000 no later than Friday.
The total number of U.S. cases was approaching 860,000 with many states yet to report