For eight days in a row, the daily numbers have exceeded one hundred thousand. There is a record number of more than 65,000 hospitalized with covid-19 in hospitals. The Midwest is most affected, with hospitals in North Dakota occupied 100 percent.
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During November, the record for the number of newly confirmed cases of SARS-Cov-2 per day was broken five times in the USA. More than half a million people have been infected since November 8. In 44 states of the union, they record at least a ten percent increase in the number of infected people per week, and in eleven of them it is even fifty percent.
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Texas has surpassed a million infected, California is approaching
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in Texas was the first in the United States to exceed one million. With 989,400 cases, California is approaching this border. There are 1.02 million confirmed cases in Texas, with 18,000 – as in California – infected. They recorded a record 10,865 cases in Texas on Tuesday. In the most affected city of El Paso, they asked for another four mobile mortuaries in addition to the six already delivered.
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Samples in Los Angeles are being sampled for coronavirus infection.
Photo: Lucy Nicholson, Reuters
Strict restrictions are being imposed in New York State after a new coronavirus infection was confirmed in a record 136,000 people in the United States on Tuesday. Bars, restaurants and gyms close at 10 p.m. But the shops will remain open. Even in private, no more than ten people will be allowed to meet. 1628 people with covid-19 are currently hospitalized in the state. Another 21 infected died.
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Exhausted capacity of hospitals
Hospitals are overcrowded. There are currently 65,368 people with covid-19, compared to 61,368 on Tuesday, CNN said, citing the Covid Trackin Project. It’s twice as much as a month ago.
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The capacity of many hospitals is already exhausted. In the state of Wisconsin, 90 percent of beds are occupied in state hospitals, in North Dakota, where staff do not have to wear drapes, hospitals are one hundred percent full, said Governor Doug Burgum. They also lack staff.
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Hospitals across the Midwest are under pressure, facing a third wave of coronavirus. Hospitals in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Ohio are also congested. In Illinois, many hospitals have more people with covid-19 than they had on the worst days of spring. In total, more than 4,200 are hospitalized there, said Governor Jay Robert Pritzker. He also expects a further increase in hospitalizations due to new cases.
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Coronavirus test site in Los Angeles
Photo: Lucy Nicholson, Reuters
However, further increases can be expected in the next 10 to 14 days, as patients with severe covid-19 are usually transported to hospitals up to two weeks after infection.
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A total of 10.4 million people became infected in the United States, of whom 241,809 died.
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