The disturbing surge in Covid-19 hospitalizations, in one chart

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More Americans are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any other point in the pandemic, a grim indicator that the third big wave of cases in the US may be the worst wave to date.

On November 11, 65,368 people across the United States were in the hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, according to data reported by the Covid Tracking Project. That’s significantly higher than the last peak of 59,940 recorded on April 15, when the New York City area was the epicenter of the US outbreak.

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/12/21560902/covid-19-risk-hospitalizations-chart-texas-illinois

Edited November 13, 2020 by placeholder

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

From the OP article above:

 

 

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In Texas, officials are setting up medical tents in El Paso and Lubbock in response to the rapid rise in hospitalized Covid-19 patients and a dwindling number of hospital beds. “El Paso, Texas, is almost completely out of ICU beds; Lubbock, the same thing,” said McQuillen.
 

“We are the 11th-largest city in the state of Texas and we have two field hospitals on their way to town,” Jarrett Atkinson, Lubbock’s city manager, told KCBD on Tuesday. “I can absolutely assure you that never in my career did I think we would be deploying field hospitals to Lubbock, Texas.”

 

 

Yep, echoing the city manager in Lubbock, never did I think in my lifetime I'd see the U.S. and the American people so imperiled because of one man's political greed and narcissism.

 

[pookondee]

14 hours ago, placeholder said:

More Americans are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any other point in the pandemic, a grim indicator that the third big wave of cases in the US may be the worst wave to date.

On November 11, 65,368 people across the United States were in the hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, according to data reported by the Covid Tracking Project. That’s significantly higher than the last peak of 59,940 recorded on April 15, when the New York City area was the epicenter of the US outbreak.

https://www.vox.com/2020/11/12/21560902/covid-19-risk-hospitalizations-chart-texas-illinois

 

Its so stupidly obvious to point this out,

but of all these figures,

(the 59k bundles and the previous) there must be around 99% who are over it, and Covid is but a bad memory.

 

The worst sheeple seem to developed this mentality that these figures are of people who remain sick and the figure just keeps on accumulating.

 

To the point which, overhearing a (typical) stupid Aussie woman claiming:

"Just about all of America is sick or dying"

 

yeah right: like all 390 million of em. ok

 

Never a more fitting time for the term "jesus wept"????

[Rimmer]

A speculative conspiracy post and replies has been removed also a troll meme

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18 hours ago, pookondee said:

 

Its so stupidly obvious to point this out,

but of all these figures,

(the 59k bundles and the previous) there must be around 99% who are over it, and Covid is but a bad memory.

 

The worst sheeple seem to developed this mentality that these figures are of people who remain sick and the figure just keeps on accumulating.

 

To the point which, overhearing a (typical) stupid Aussie woman claiming:

"Just about all of America is sick or dying"

 

yeah right: like all 390 million of em. ok

 

Never a more fitting time for the term "jesus wept"????

Deaths are now over 1000 per day and still climbing.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

 

The Worst Day of the Pandemic Since May
The United States is experiencing an unprecedented surge of hospitalizations across the country. Today, states reported that 61,964 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, more than at any other time in the pandemic. For context, there are now 40 percent more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than there were two weeks ago.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/11/pandemic-coronavirus-hospitalizations-new-record/617061/

 

The number of people who are hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States has nearly doubled in the past two weeks, and hospitalizations increased in 47 states. As project co-leaders Erin Kissane and Alexis Madrigal wrote on our site and in The Atlantic earlier this week, the dangerous spike in hospitalizations suggests that further increases in the number of fatalities are imminent.

.https://covidtracking.com/blog/weekly-update-nov-12