washington the united states recorded 1509 deaths related to the coronavirus pandemic over the past 24 hours according to a tally by johns hopkins university as of 830 pm monday 0030 gmt tuesdaythe number of fatalities was similar to the previous days toll of 1514the outbreak has now claimed the lives of at least 23529 people in the us the most of any countrythe united states has more than 550000 people infected with the virus according to the centers for disease control and prevention cdcnew yorks governor declared monday that the worst is over for the state despite deaths passing 10000 as several states began devising a plan to reopen their shuttered economiespresident donald trump tweeted that any decision to end shutdowns rested with him even though it was individual governors who rolled out the lockdownsamericas federal system of government delegates powers to the governors of the 50 states but the president in theory can use his powers to oversee a coordinated national strategythe world health organization has said lifting curbs too soon could unleash a second wave of cases