The US now has the world's biggest coronavirus outbreak — its case total just surpassed China's

And China has more than 4 times as many people as the U.S., and has done more testing.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-us-has-worlds-biggest-outbreak-topping-china-2020-3

Jeremy Berke and Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Mar. 26, 2020

Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the US have topped the totals in China and Italy, making the US the center of the global outbreak.

In the US, confirmed cases hit 82,404 on Thursday evening, surpassing China's 81,782 and Italy's 80,589. The total number of confirmed cases globally is 526,044, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Since the US reported its first coronavirus case on January 20, more than 1,100 people in the country have died from the disease. The death tolls in Italy and China are higher.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday that the aggressive social-distancing measures put in place in the state were starting to slow the virus' spread. New York is the center of the US outbreak, with nearly half the country's cases.