The United States exceeds 100,000 hospitalized for Covid-19 for the first time; deaths in a single day also reach their highest number | World

Those hospitalized for the disease. exceeded 100,000 for the first time since the pandemic began, announced the Covid monitoring project on Wednesday (2).

And, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracking, the dead reached 3,157 on the same day, an also unprecedented mark.

“There are currently 100,226 people with Covid-19 and hospitalized in the United States, this is the first time that hospitalizations exceed 100,000,” announced the Covid Tracking Project on Twitter.

US officials fear the situation will worsen as more than 150,000 people test positive for the virus every day in the country.

Infections are also expected to increase after the Thanksgiving celebrations, marked by the displacement of millions of people.

In California alone, more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases were reported on Wednesday, making it the state of the country with the greater number of cases in one day since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project.