Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, also warned this morning: “A quarter of us all Corona Virus There have been cases this year in the last month. “

The United States is close to 12.5 million coronavirus cases and has seen nearly 258,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. Coronavirus Resource Center In Baltimore. These are by a large margin the highest totals in the world.

In his appearance on Fox News this morning, Adams said about the increase in injuries last month: “These cases turn into hospitalizations and deaths.”

At the national level, the United States has not controlled the coronavirus throughout the time the country has been directly affected by the disease, since January. Experts admit that it is spreading like wildfire over most of the United States in the autumn wave. Adams also warned that hospitals under stress will have to move away Heart patients, pregnant women, and others.

He said, “This is the truth.”.

Hospitals need immediate relief, according to Reuters.

The US was on track to surpass 85,000 hospitalizations for Covid-19 on Wednesday, a record high.

This has resulted in taxing already overstretched healthcare providers as more than 1,500 coronavirus deaths and 171,000 new cases accumulate daily.

Many Midwestern hospitals, in particular, are severely lacking beds, equipment and medical personnel, providers say.

Some are repurposing areas to accommodate Covid-19 patients or cram many patients into one room, asking employees to work longer hours and more frequent shifts.
“There is an outage in the community, where we see people in bars and restaurants, or plan a Thanksgiving dinner,” Dr. Kelly Cowcott, An infectious disease doctor in University of Nebraska Medical Center. She said, as a health worker,We feel frustrated.“

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