"Covid-19 Pandemic Updates 12/6/20"
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5 December 2020 19:03 EST:
• New data suggest that hospitals are being forced to admit a smaller percentage of COVID-19 patients as the record-breaking new daily cases in recent weeks overwhelms the nation's healthcare systems.
• A new record was set for hospitalizations Friday, with a total of 101,276 people receiving medical care.
• While hospitalizations hit record highs in the US, the average percentage of infected people who are hospitalized with COVID is dropping. It comes as overwhelmed hospitals are facing major bed shortages are are forced to enforce stricter guidelines on who can be admitted, even as deaths across the nation increase pushing the 7-day average went up to 1,917 deaths per day
• In Pennsylvania, one son took to social media to beg for an ICU bed for his mother.
• In Texas, hospitals are having to ask patients to wait in the emergency room for beds, with one region warning they may soon have to ask people to wait in their cars.
• The nation's cases are still rising, with the US reporting a third of the world's new cases on Friday.
Please view this complete, lengthy, well illustrated article here:
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Dec. 6, 2020 12:04 AM ET:
The coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 66,558,000
people, according to official counts, including 14,651,696 Americans.
At least 1,528,300 have died.
Dec. 6, 2020 12:04 AM ET:
Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
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