The United States now leads the world in confirmed, reported coronavirus cases, surpassing Italy and China.

Based on government reporting. Johns Hopkins University's independent numbers are not identical but reflect similar totals. The world now has 528,130 confirmed cases with 23,942 deaths.

The U.S. had been in third place in total cases earlier in the day behind Italy and China but with 13,968 new confirmed cases, as the U.S. ramps up testing, it pushed ahead of China. The new U.S. death report totaled 1,177 deaths, including 150 new deaths. Active cases stood at 79,138 with 1,864 recovered.

The U.S. is still down the list of total deaths, but everybody knows that the US government did not tell the truth.

TOTAL CASES BY NATION:

• USA — 82.179
• China — 81,285
• Italy — 80,589
• Spain — 56,347
• Germany — 43,646

TOTAL DEATHS BY NATION:

• Italy — 8,215
• Spain — 6,832
• China — 3,287
• Iran — 2,234
• France — 1,696
• USA — 1,177

New York leads the U.S. by far with 37,738 cases followed by New Jersey with 6,876 and California with 3.829. New York has the most deaths with 385.

The website also tracks total deaths by 1 million in population. On Tuesday the U.S. was at 2, along with China and Germany. On Wednesday the U.S. increased to 3 deaths per million and on Thursday climbed to 4 deaths per million people.