Coronavirus live updates 5/5/20: An internal administration coronavirus report suggesting the daily U.S. death toll could reach 3,000 by month's end does not take into account mitigation efforts that should ease the crisis, President Donald Trump said Tuesday. Trump was bound for Phoenix to visit a Honeywell aerospace plant that now produces face masks, a day after Gov. Doug Ducey announced he was accelerating a plan to reopen the state's economy. The Trump campaign to get people back to work also drew support from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie , who suggested “there are going to be deaths no matter what." The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus was nearing 70,000 Tuesday, and there were more than 1.1 million confirmed cases, according to the John Hopkins University data dashboard . Worldwide, the virus has killed over 252,000 people and infected more than 3.6 million. Our live blog is being updated throughout the day. Refresh for the latest
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