Coronavirus update: U.S. death toll climbs toward 150,000, as COVID-19 enters ‘dangerous new phase’
August 03, 2020 at 13:30 PM EDT
The U.S. tally for new confirmed cases of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 continued its march toward 5 million, with the death toll closing in on 150,000, as White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx warned that the pandemic has entered a “new phase.”