UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 8:33 am MT
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Maricopa County hospital beds are filling up. Find out how many are in use right now. (Shutterstock)
PHOENIX Even as vaccines begin rolling out to health care workers and offer a powerful tool to fight the pandemic, coronavirus case numbers and hospitalizations continue to hit record highs across the U.S.
The latest hospitalization data shows that at least 100,000 Americans or more have near consistently been in the hospital for coronavirus in December. In Arizona, the state has seen multiple days in a row with deaths numbering in the hundreds this month. As of Monday, approximately 461,345 Arizonans have contracted the virus since the start of the pandemic and at least 7,972 have died.