US death toll from coronavirus hits 200,000

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh (Keith Srakocic/AP)

The US death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 on Tuesday, by far the highest in the world.

“It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins University public health researcher, eight months after the scourge first reached the world’s richest nation.