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Published Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:03PM EST The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before - nearly 3,900 - on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in several states, with California hit particularly hard, reporting on Thursday a record two-day total of 1,042 coronavirus deaths. Skyrocketing caseloads there are threatening to force hospitals to ration care and essentially decide who lives and who dies. “Folks are ...

US records highest daily deaths yet from the coronavirus on same day as US Capitol siege By Carla K. Johnson and Lisa Marie Pane Associated Press,Updated January 7, 2021, 2:36 p.m. Email to a Friend Vehicles line up as people wait for COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru testing center in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2020.Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press The US registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandem...

U.S. has record coronavirus deaths with 3,900 in one day Skyrocketing caseloads are threatening to force hospitals to ration care and essentially decide who lives and who dies.     In this Dec. 22 photo, medical workers prepare to manually prone a COVID-19 patient in an intensive care unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. [ JAE C. HONG | AP ] Updated Jan. 8 The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep...

New York City, US – Stephanie Cal was stringing up Christmas decorations at her family home in Long Island on December 13 when she got the text from a hospital co-worker. The 58-year-old nurse stared at her phone – she had qualified for the first round of Pfizer-BioNtech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Days earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration had given the green light to the pharmaceutical giant’s vaccine for emergency distribution. “This is the most wonderful Christmas gift,” Cal, a surgical ICU nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in the greater New York metropolitan area, sa...

ICU capacity shrinks at hospitals as they scramble to find enough staff to manage COVID surge Priyanka Dayal McCluskey © Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Physicians assistant Brendan Smith cared for a patient in a COVID unit at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester. Hospitals in some parts of Massachusetts are watching their intensive-care capacity shrink at a worrisome pace, as they struggle to find enough staff to care for the rising number of severely ill COVID-19 patients. While ICU beds remain open in many hospitals, the number of available spots has been declining and...