U.S. hospitalizations continue climb as 11 states set records for new COVID-19 cases
Source: CBS News
Coronavirus hospitalizations were continuing a dangerous trend in the United States while Brazil and India each reached ominous milestones as the global pandemic showed little sign of retreating Sunday.
Hospitalizations, which peaked at nearly 60,000 across the nation in July, had fallen by more than half last month. But since dipping below 29,000 on Sept. 20, the number of people being treated in hospitals each day has crept higher, to almost 35,000.
And a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data through late Saturday shows 11 states set records for new cases for a seven-day period – Alaska, Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah. The U.S. has recorded its fourth consecutive day of more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases, a streak not seen in two months.
The U.S. has now reported more than 7.7 million cases and almost 215,000 deaths since the first U.S. case was confirmed Jan. 21. Record numbers of deaths over a seven-day period were reported in Kansas and North Dakota.
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This is why you have Republicans like Mike Lee opening questioning Democracy and why we need to win every Senate seat we can. We not only have to beat Trump, but we need to beat all of his enablers who stood by and did nothing in the face Trump's chaos and corruption.
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President Trump was speaking at a rally in Ohio on Monday evening when he said the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody." On Tuesday, the U.S. reached the grim milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths. The United States has for many months had the highest number of infections and deaths in the world, with more than 6.8 million confirmed cases as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
When he made the false claim about coronavirus, Mr. Trump was addressing a crowd at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio — one of two campaign stops that day in the battleground state. The president criticized how he thinks Joe Biden would handle the pandemic and impending vaccine if he were to be elected president, claiming Biden would "shut down the country" again.
At the beginning of the pandemic, many states and cities did go into lockdowns to help slow the spread of the virus. Some like New York were able to "flatten the curve," but others resisted imposing safety measures like mask-wearing and quickly reopened even as cases kept spreading.
Mr. Trump implied that shutting down businesses was not necessary. "We now know the disease. We didn't know it," he said at the rally.
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