201030 -- NEW YORK, Oct. 30, 2020 -- A man takes photo of a mural of Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, in New York, the United States, Oct. 30, 2020. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 9 million on Friday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering CSSE at Johns Hopkins University. U.S. COVID-19 case count rose to 9,007,298, with the national death toll reaching 229,293, as of 3:24 p.m. local time 1924 GMT, according to the CSSE. U.S.-NEW YORK-COVID-19-NINE MILLION-CASES WangxYing PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN