U.S. Tops 5 Million COVID-19 Cases, With Five States Making Up More Than 40 Percent of Tally

U.S. COVID-19 cases topped 5 million on Sunday, and experts warned the actual number of infections could be many times higher, reports CNN . The United States holds about 25 percent of global cases, and has the most reported deaths in the world, with Johns Hopkins University (JHU) calculating that of the country's 5,036,387 estimated cases, 162,851 have been fatal. Five states — California, Florida, Texas, New York, and Georgia — constitute more than 40 percent of U.S. infections. The New York State governor's office reported on Sunday that Saturday's positivity rate was 0.78 percent, marking the lowest one-day positive infection rate since the pandemic began. Nevertheless, Vanderbilt University Professor William Schaffner laments that the toll of the virus is likely to continue climbing, "because over much of this country, this virus is spreading unimpeded because so many folks are not getting with the program to contain it."