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Emergency room doctors and nurses work on Monday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. New York has seen the most coronavirus-related deaths of any state in the U.S.

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Emergency room doctors and nurses work on Monday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, N.Y. New York has seen the most coronavirus-related deaths of any state in the U.S.

John Minchillo/AP

The official number of people in the United States killed by COVID-19 has reached 50,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. death and confirmed cases totals are far higher than any other country.

More than 190,000 people have died from the coronavirus globally, and case totals have reached over 2.7 million.

Within the U.S., the pandemic has hit hardest in the state of New York. The New York City boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx have all seen more than 2,000 residents die from COVID-19 complications. New York state officials said Thursday that preliminary results suggest a fifth of all New York City residents have been infected

with the coronavirus.

In total, the U.S. has more than three times as many confirmed cases of the virus than any other country. European countries such as Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom have also been hit hard by the pandemic. Nearly all of those countries have experienced a higher number of deaths per capita than the U.S., according to the data from Johns Hopkins.