Coronavirus in the United States: the virus does not give a truce and the country has reached a record number of hospitalizations

the coronavirus hit hard United States, which in the past few hours has exceeded 61,000 hospitalizations for the disease. In addition, daily infections nationwide exceeded 100,000, and just in the first ten days of November, they exceeded one million new cases.

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According to data from Johns Hopkins University, early fall has strong regrowth COVID-19 infections across the country, which to date show no signs of remission.

With a record record of 136325 cases this Tuesday, the United States is accumulating at least 10,252,129 infections since the start of the pandemic, when the death toll is 239,671.

In this context, the Covid Tracking Project platform has determined that they are already 61,964 people admitted to hospital as a result of the disease.

While it is a unprecedented figure which threatens to worsen in the short term, experts believe they are better prepared to care for patients compared to the first months of the year.

“We are definitely in a better position in terms of therapeutic tools and knowledge about the coronavirus, ”said Dr. William Hanage, infectious disease researcher at Harvard University, as detailed by the CNN.

According to the latest official data, there has been a sharp increase in daily cases in states such as Pennsylvania, Illinois Yes West Virginia, who scored record numbers. In addition, Texas became the first jurisdiction in the country to exceed the million infections.

Faced with this situation, which implies a significant overload for many hospitals throughout the territory, the elected president Joe biden this week appointed a Scientific committee to advise him on health issues, while President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge his victory.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next few weeks we see over 200,000 cases per dayMichael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told CNN.

Meanwhile, there are already several state governors who urged citizens to take the dangerousness of the virus seriously. One of them was the President of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, who recommended that people stay at home to avoid infections. He also called on employers to allow remote working wherever possible and to require the use of masks in businesses and offices, among other measures.