The United States has seen its death toll from the new coronavirus surpass 50,000, a figure that remains the highest of any country in the world, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed Friday.As the country crosses the threshold, which represents a level of deaths 1.5 times larger than the number of Americans killed in combat during the 1950-1953 Korean War, the administration of President Donald Trump has been pushing to reopen the economy from local and regional lockdowns meant to slow the pandemic.The number of U.S. infection cases began to surge in March. The Trump administration pr…READ FULL ARTICLE
