CORONAVIRUS became the number one killer in the US this week - overtaking heart disease for the first time - as a record 2,879 people died from the virus in a single day on Thursday. The harrowing death toll comes as 30million in California are heading into lockdown as the state faces dwindling ICU bed capacities. He added that this breaks down to around 10,000 to 11,000 Americans dying of heart-related issues each week. "What we know now, that this past week at least, COVID surpassed that weekly average of cardiac deaths in this country," Gupta said. This is a slightly looser lockdown then seen in the spring, when nearly all non-essential businesses were closed.
