The U.S. saw its second deadliest day in a row from the coronavirus on Wednesday, raising the death toll to nearly 15,000.

According to Johns Hopkins University, health officials report more than 430,000 cases in the U.S. – more than any other country.

The U.S. on both Tuesday and Wednesday logged nearly 2,000 new fatalities. The development comes after New York and New Jersey also reported back-to-back spikes in their death tolls.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that new hospitalization numbers are down, but deaths in the state are still expected to increase.

"The number of deaths may continue to rise as those hospitalized for the longest periods pass," Cuomo said.

While numbers continue to rise and experts warn of tough times ahead, the Trump administration loosened requirements for certain people to return to work.

Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at Wednesday's White House coronavirus task force briefing that some essential employees, like health care workers, can go back to work after being exposed to a known or possible case of coronavirus under certain conditions.

The exposed employee must take their temperature before work, wear a face mask and practice social distancing, according to the guidance.

President Donald Trump has been pushing to get the U.S. economy reopened as soon as possible. He said on Wednesday that he couldn't give a date for when everything would go back to normal, adding that the numbers are "changing rapidly and soon we'll be over that curve."

But one date was tentatively floated at the press briefing by infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, and that was the possibility for schools to open back up in the fall.