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The United States has reported more than 4,000 COVID-19 deaths on Thursday local time for the first time, as health systems struggle to cope with the number of sick and dying patients.
A total of 4,033 people died in connection with the virus within 24 hours, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
The country has seen a total of 365,000 deaths linked to the coronavirus so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins university, out of a population of 330 million people.
As well as the deaths, Thursday brought reports of more than 266,000 new cases, bringing the total tally to in excess of 21.6 million cases.
Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men lay hooked up to ventilators their bodies resting in induced comas while nurses clad in spacesuit-style respirators checked their patients bleeping monitors in the otherwise eerie silence.