On Tuesday, the number of people with Covid-19 at US hospitals for the first time topped 60,000.
The United States currently averages about 1,661 new hospitalizations per day, the organization’s data shows.
The numbers are troublesome because rises in hospitalizations are usually followed by rises in the US death toll. Last week saw five days in a row with more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths — the first time that’s happened since August. More than 1,300 deaths were reported Tuesday.
More than 239,000 people in the US have died since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University. Another 110,000 or more deaths are projected in the next two months, according to the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Hospitals at ‘brink’ of hitting capacity
As of Tuesday, 44 states accumulated at least 10% more Covid-19 cases in the last week than the week…
