California orders 5,000 body bags while Colorado and New Mexico bring in refrigerated trucks on second day of vaccine rollout - as US hospitalizations reach a record 112,816 and new daily fatalities surge to more than 3k
Nationwide, there were 3,019 new deaths reported on Tuesday. It is only the third time daily deaths have exceeded 3,000 fatalities throughout the pandemic and all three have occurred in the last week
There were 198,357 new confirmed cases on Tuesday and nearly 113,000 people nationwide currently hospitalized with the virus - the highest number at any point during the pandemic
California Governor Gavin Newsom warned of the possibility of thousands of deaths in the coming weeks as the state faces its most intense coronavirus surge yet
The US hit a new record for hospitalizations with 110,549 patients being treated for COVID-19 yesterday
The number of hospitalizations has surpassed the 100,000 mark every day for the last two weeks with the seven-day rolling average of patients now at 107,856
There were 1,311 new deaths and more than 193,000 new cases reported on the same day that Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine started rolling out across the country
The death toll surpassed the grim 300,000 milestone yesterday just hours after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the country
The Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa currently have the highest number of deaths per 100,000 people based on a seven-day average
We re not winning this battle : Relentless COVID-19 surge fills 1 in 8 hospital ICU units Ken Alltucker and Aleszu Bajak, USA TODAY
COVID overwhelming hospitals in multiple states
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Hospitals from West Texas to the upper Midwest are facing dire shortages of beds for critically ill coronavirus patients as the post-holiday surge shows no sign of relenting, new data shows.
About 1 in 8 U.S. hospitals had little or no intensive care unit space available last week. And experts say the number of hospitals struggling to accommodate the nation s sickest patients probably will increase after another week of record COVID-19 cases.
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Frontline workers at some Houston hospitals in poor areas left out of the first round of vaccines
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1of14Tanna Ingraham, right, is hugged by medical student Pauleth Tenorio, left, inside her room at United Memorial Medical Center, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, in Houston. Ingraham, who is a registered nurse and works at UMMC s COVID Unit, has contracted the virus for the second time in six months. As thousands of health care workers at Houston s largest hospitals will be first in line to receive the new COVID-19 vaccine in the coming days, those at smaller institutions, including UMMC will get none.Godofredo A. Vásquez/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less