A bit more back on topic:
There are currently 61,694 COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals, according to the COVID Tracking Project, surpassing the previous record of 59,940 hit on April 15, when the Northeast was the U.S. epicenter. That’s a 40% increase over the number just two weeks ago.
Seventeen states are at their current peaks for hospitalizations today, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Hospitals are already on the brink of being overwhelmed in Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. Officials in many other states are warning that their health-care systems will be dangerously stressed if cases continue to rise.
North Dakota’s Gov. Doug Burnum said the state is now at full capacity and health-care workers who test positive but show no symptoms are being allowed to care for COVID patients