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A new study determined which states have more bad luck than anywhere else in the country.

A new study determined which states have more bad luck than anywhere else in the country.

A new study determined which states have more bad luck than anywhere else in the country.

>> bob, two hospitals in your state have issued disaster declarations. can you explain to us what that actually means on the ground? and how bad it's gotten to -- to make that necessary? >> well, thanks for highlighting the -- the issues. um, and actually, we had a third hospital in maryland this afternoon went to what's called crisis standards of care. there are really three levels. there is conventional, contingency, and then crisis level. many of our hospitals have already been operating on c conti contingency standards of care, which essentially means vaeding spreading the workforce a litt...

Enough testing. we are going to put the full force of the federal government behind expanding testing by launching a covid-19 pandemic testing board. we continue to work on making at-home testing available. from the start, america's failed to do enough with covid-19 testing. >> as for those who are getting tested here in the united states, what we are now seeing is an average of more than 200,000 new covid cases a day. the highest since january of this year. states including florida, maryland, and right here in new york, are reporting record-high numbers of new cases every day. and other troub...