Everything that Happened in the Fight Against the Coronavirus Today | NBC New York

The coronavirus pandemic reached a new milestone on Thursday: more than 1 million cases worldwide, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The coronavirus outbreak has thrown 10 million Americans out of work in just two weeks, the swiftest, most stunning collapse the U.S. job market has ever witnessed, and economists warn unemployment could reach levels not seen since the Depression, as the economic damage piles up around the world.

The bleak news Thursday — 6.6 million new unemployment claims on top of last week's 3.3 million — came as the competition for scarce ventilators, masks and other protective gear seemed to grow more desperate and deaths mounted with alarming speed in Italy, Spain and New York, the most lethal hot spot in the nation, with nearly 2,400 lives lost.