The United States currently has 124,534 cases of coronavirus as of Sunday at 11:55 a.m. ET, with the domestic death toll at 2,188. There are more cases in the U.S. than any other country in the world.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the coronavirus task force, told CNN on Sunday that it is possible that 100,000 to 200,000 Americans could die from the virus. He also said that the U.S. could see one to two million cases in total.

New York state has the most cases, at 53,520. Dr. Fauci told CNN's Jake Tapper that about 56% of the country's new infections are coming from the New York City area.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has urged the federal government for at least 30,000 ventilators, which the state will need on hand when cases peak in about three weeks. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the nation’s largest city would need hundreds more ventilators and other medical supplies by April 5.

New Orleans, another hot spot of the outbreak, will run out of ventilators by April 4. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has pressed for ventilators from the national stockpile to handle the crisis

“We haven’t yet been approved for ventilators out of the national stockpile. I continue to press that case and I hope we will be cut in for a slice of what they have left,” Edwards told CBS News on Sunday. “It is the one thing that really keeps me up at night.”

New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and California are just a few of the states which have shut down non-essential businesses to prevent the spread of the virus.

According to White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, all U.S. states and metros areas must assume they "could have an outbreak equivalent to New York and do everything right now to prevent it."

President Trump signed a $2 trillion stimulus package this week, which is intended to help workers and industries impacted by the crisis.

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