{"id":1778,"date":"2020-11-23T14:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2020-11-23T14:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T14:53:58","slug":"a-record-83870-people-hospitalized-with-covid-19-as-national-cases-deaths-continue-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1778","title":{"rendered":"A record 83,870 people hospitalized with COVID-19 as national cases, deaths continue to soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

More Americans than ever are now hospitalized with COVID-19, as cases in all 50 states continue to increase.  The Covid Tracking Project<\/a> reported Saturday that 83,870 people were hospitalized, a new single-day U.S. record.  Saturday also marked the 18th consecutive day that over 100,000 new COVID-19 cases were recorded, with most days now seeing over 150,000 new cases, for a seven-day average of 167,568 new cases daily \u2013 an increase of 13.7% over the previous week.  According to an internal Health and Human Services memo, obtained by ABC News, 29% of hospitals across the country have more than 80% of their ICU beds filled. That number was 17-18% during the summertime peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 cases continue to soar nationwide, with the U.S. reporting more than 1.1 million infections over the last week.\u00a0 That means approximately one in every 281 Americans tested positive for COVID-19 during that period.\u00a0 Since November 1, the U.S. has reported nearly 2.9 million new cases. \u00a0The numbers in some states are staggering: Louisiana in particular reported statewide case increases of 90% over the past two weeks.\u00a0 Other states are reporting week-to-week increases topping 20%, 40% and 60%, with individual regions in many states reporting triple-digit infection increases.

The U.S. is currently averaging 1,439 reported COVID-19 deaths a day, the highest the average has been since May 13. \u00a0Some 10,077 deaths were reported in the U.S. last week \u2013 that\u2019s only three shy of one death recorded every minute.\u00a0 As of Monday morning, there were 256,798 reported COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University<\/a>, an increase of 4,234 over Friday morning\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COVID-19 numbers<\/strong>
Here’s the latest data on COVID-19 coronavirus infections and deaths.

Latest reported numbers globally per <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/a>
Global diagnosed cases: 58,766,731
Global deaths: 1,390,003.\u00a0 The United States has the most deaths of any single country, with 256,798.
Number of countries\/regions: at least 191
Total patients recovered globally: 37,589,499

Latest reported numbers in the United States per <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/a>
There are at least 11,720,318 reported cases in 50 states + the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.\u00a0 This is more than in any other country.
U.S. deaths: at least 256,798.\u00a0 New York State has the greatest number of reported deaths in the U.S., with 34,319.
U.S. total patients recovered: 4,526,513
U.S. total people tested: 179,340,847

The greatest number of reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is in Texas, with 1,153,944 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 29 million.\u00a0 This ranks fourth in the world after Maharashtra, India, which has 1,780,208 reported cases; England, which has 1,301,559 reported cases; and Sao Paulo, Brazil, which has 1,209,588 reported cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More Americans than ever are now hospitalized with COVID-19, as cases in all 50 states continue to increase.  The Covid Tracking Project reported Saturday that 83,870 people were hospitalized, a new single-day U.S. record.  Saturday also marked the 18th consecutive day that over 100,000 new COVID-19 cases were recorded, with most days now seeing over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Blank-1000-x-50022.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}