id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1641 COVID-19 pandemic in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 19705 2916 77 Throughout March and early April, several state, city, and county governments imposed "stay at home" quarantines on their populations to stem the spread of the virus.[63] By March 27, the country had reported over 100,000 cases.[64] On April 2, at President Trump's direction, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and CDC ordered additional preventive guidelines to the long-term care facility industry.[65] On April 11, the U.S. death toll became the highest in the world when the number of deaths reached 20,000, surpassing that of Italy.[66] On April 19, the CMS added new regulations requiring nursing homes to inform residents, their families and representatives, of COVID-19 cases in their facilities.[67] On April 28, the total number of confirmed cases across the country surpassed one million.[68] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1641.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1641.txt