Below are 28 updates from the six states hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic:
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Michigan state regulators are investigating reports of bodies being stored in vacant rooms at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said April 17, according to The Detroit Times.
The U.S. has reported 760,245 COVID-19 cases and 40,702 related deaths as of 10 a.m. CDT April 20. Worldwide, 2,424,419 COVID-19 cases and 166,256 deaths have been confirmed, while 635,895 patients have recovered.
Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 activity continued to increase nationwide in the week ending April 11, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced plans to reopen the state as soon as April 20, The Washington Post reports.
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The Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, N.C., launched a registry that aims to better understand how COVID-19 has affected the lives of healthcare workers.
As of April 15, African Americans made up about 30 percent of the COVID-19 cases in the country, according to CDC data.
Nearly half of patients who contract COVID-19 from another individual may be infected before that person exhibits symptoms, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.
COVID-19 projections from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle are unreliable and should not be used to inform national policy, epidemiologists told STAT.
A majority of Americans (66 percent) are concerned that state governments will lift COVID-19 restrictions too quickly, while 32 percent are more concerned that states will not lift restrictions quickly enough, a new poll shows.