PHILADELPHIA The US topped 20 million total infections and inched closer to 350,000 COVID-19 deaths on the first day of 2021 reminders of a grim reality continuing into the new year.
More people have died across the US than anywhere else: nearly 348,000 Americans since the pandemic s start. About another 115,000 could die over the next month, according to projections from the University of Washington s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
That s while hospitalizations are at the highest levels they ve ever been. The US reported a record 125,379 hospitalized COVID-19 patients nationwide Thursday, according to the COVIDTracking Project. That number dipped slightly Friday, with 125,057 hospitalizations reported about an 163% increase from two months ago.
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By MARISA GERBER AND RONG-GONG LIN II | Los Angeles Times | Published: January 2, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) In a stark reminder of how overstretched hospital care has become across Los Angeles, the Army Corps of Engineers plans to send crews to the region to upgrade the oxygen-delivery systems at a handful of aging hospitals. News of the deployment comes five days after several L.A. County hospitals declared internal disasters and temporarily turned away all ambulance traffic because their internal oxygen systems began to buckle beneath the high demand of air flow needed by patients packed into COVID-19 wards.