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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 02:57 PM Nov 2020

Record number of people hospitalized with coronavirus as every state sees case surge

Source: The Hill

Every state is now seeing increases in COVID-19 cases, and many are also seeing spikes in hospitalizations, a marker that the third wave of the pandemic has arrived.

The U.S. reported 136,000 new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday, the largest single-day increase on record, according to a tracker by Johns Hopkins University.

Nearly 62,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 nationwide as of Tuesday, according to the COVID Tracking Project, a record-high number and a sobering indicator that increases in deaths are soon to come.

“Today we set new record highs for COVID19 cases and hospitalizations. On the same day. Also had the highest death toll in months,” tweeted Craig Spencer, the director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Columbia.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/525509-record-number-of-people-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-as-every-state-sees



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