US Death Toll From CCP Virus Surpasses 50,000

The USNS Comfort medical ship moves up the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty as it arrives in New York on March 30, 2020. Bryan Smith/AFP via Getty Images

More than 50,000 people in the United States died from the CCP virus as of Friday, a grim reminder that the pandemic is still claiming lives even after its apparent peak.

The United States had the most deaths and confirmed COVID-19 cases of any country in the world besides China—the statistics from which remain a mystery. More than 883,000 cases were confirmed in the United States as of Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.