US hits 4 million COVID-19 cases: A look at past milestones and how we got here
April 1: 200,000 confirmed cases
The U.S. passed 200,000 cases on April 1. For the first time, 1,000 people died in a single day, bringing the nationalCDC reversed its guidance advising Americans to not wear face masks in order to save them for medical professionals. Trump said the new guidance to wear face masks is voluntary: "I don't think I'm going to be doing it," he said. The new mask guidance came as research revealed that asymptotic people were spreading the disease without knowing they had it.A day after the U.S. became the world's most infected nation with more than 1,000 deaths, the nation passed 100,000 cases.
Trump signed the largest stimulus package in U.S. history, promising $1,200 checks to eligible Americans, with additional amounts for families. also included hundreds of billions of dollars of support for companies to keep a payroll during the pandemic.While President Donald Trump announced a ban on travelers from Europe, U.S. cases jumped from 100 to over 1,000 in just eight days."We cannot say this loudly enough, or clearly enough, or often enough: all countries can still change the course of this pandemic," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, said in a statement.The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S.
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