The US has 4% of the world’s population but 25% of its coronavirus cases – CNN

More than 125,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the US, and more than 2.5 million Americans have been infected.

American life has been irrevocably altered by the worst pandemic in a century. And as the country struggles to reopen, cases of Covid-19 have surged again -- this time in young people and in states that had previously avoided the brunt of the virus.

Here, in dollars, percentages and most tragically lives, is the pandemic's devastating toll on the US.

More people are infected with and die from coronavirus in the US than anywhere else in the world.

Coronavirus has now killed nearly 126,000 people in the US since the first death was reported in February, according to Johns Hopkins University's case count. That's an average of around 1,039 deaths per day.

The number shot up from the end of May, when an average of fewer than 900 people died every day in the US from Covid-19.

More Americans also have died of coronavirus in less than five months than in all of World War I. That conflict took the lives of 116,516 American soldiers.

With more than 2.5 million official diagnoses in the US, Redfield's estimate could mean more than 25 million Americans have been infected.

The lag in reporting is due in part to limited testing during the first few weeks of the pandemic. Now, as more people are getting tested, it's become clear that a large percentage of those who tested positive did not have any symptoms or had only mild symptoms, Redfield said.

Not all states are reporting infections and deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, so these numbers may be higher on a national scale.

Black Americans' coronavirus death rate is 2.3 times higher than that of White & Asian Americans and twice as high as the death rate for Latinos.

By comparison, White Americans represent over 62% of the US population but account for just about half of all coronavirus deaths. One in 3,600 White Americans has died, the lab reported.

Since mid-March, 47.3 million workers have filed for first-time unemployment benefits.

America's first-quarter GDP, the most expansive measure of the US economy, fell at a 4.8% annualized rate, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported in May.

CNN's Ben Tinker, Maggie Fox, Holly Yan, Andrea Kane, Paul LeBlanc, Flora Charner, Stephen Collinson, Marshall Cohen, Anneken Tappe, Zamira Rahim and Veronica Stracqualursi contributed to this report.

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