


By mid-April, disaster declarations were made by all states and territories as they all had increasing cases. The government also purchased large quantities of medical equipment, invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to assist. On March 6, 2020, Trump allocated $8.3 billion to fight the outbreak and declared a national emergency on March 13. The first known American deaths occurred in February. response to the pandemic was otherwise slow, in terms of preparing the healthcare system, stopping other travel, and testing. Restrictions were placed on flights arriving from China, but the initial U.S. outbreak a public health emergency on January 31. The first American case was reported on January 20, and President Donald Trump declared the U.S. On December 31, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. deaths due to COVID-19 in 2021 exceeded those in 2020. life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. The COVID-19 pandemic ranks first on the list of disasters in the United States by death toll it was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. In the United States, it has resulted in 97,531,408 confirmed cases with 1,070,788 all-time deaths, the most of any country, and the nineteenth-highest per capita worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by US state.
