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Many U.S. Hospitals, ICUs Are at or Near Highest Capacity Levels
The Fresno Community Regional Medical Center is canceling elective surgeries to be able to handle a surge in Covid patients.Yang Lei/Xinhua/Zuma Press
As intensive-care beds in his Fresno, Calif., hospital have filled up with Covid-19 patients in recent weeks, Dr. Eyad Almasri has seen colleagues fall ill with the virus, straining resources even further.
“We are trying to cancel many surgeries, and anything elective will be canceled, but the hospital is at capacity,” said Dr. Almasri, a pulmonologist who works at UCSF Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center’s intensive-care unit. “To make it worse.we have a lot of our staff that has been really impacted.”
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Mass. reports 3,720 new confirmed coronavirus cases, 55 new deaths
By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,Updated December 15, 2020, 5:20 p.m.
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A shipment of coronavirus vaccine doses arrived at Boston Medical Center on Monday.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts rose by 3,720 Tuesday, while the seven-day average climbed to 4,745.
The new cases brought the stateâs total to 286,866.
The death toll from confirmed cases increased by 55 to 11,190, the Department of Public Health reported.
The latest figures were released as Governor Charlie Baker and his health and human services chief beseeched residents to celebrate the coming holidays in-person with their households only.