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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
New high in the US
More corona patients in clinics than ever
In the spring, images of overloaded American hospitals and hearses in hospital parking lots go around the world. After the situation eased in the summer, many more people now have to be treated as inpatients for a corona infection, but there is a lack of staff.
In the US, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals has peaked at more than 60,000, according to media reports. A total of 61,964 people were treated with the virus at clinics across the country on Tuesday, multiple US outlets reported, citing data from the Covid Tracking Project. This value has roughly doubled since September and now also exceeds the peak reached in mid-April (59,940) at the start of the pandemic. A second high point in the summer had narrowly missed this record.
While the number of patients continues to rise, there is a shortage of medical staff to be able to provide more hospital beds, wrote the “New York Times.” According to the Covid Tracking Project, nearly 12,000 people are currently being treated in intensive care units. This value was higher in April by around 15,000. The Covid Tracking Project was started in the spring of “The Atlantic” magazine and collects and publishes data on the corona pandemic in the US.
In the US, with a population of around 330 million, the number of coronavirus infections had surpassed ten million since the pandemic began earlier in the week. The number of new cases recently peaked. More than 130,000 new cases of infection were counted in 24 hours, as calculated by the “New York Times”. The previous peak had been around 127,000 cases and was recorded last Saturday. On Tuesday, 745 new deaths related to the coronavirus were registered. The total number of deaths in the country amounted to 240,184.
Computer model shows sites of infection
Meanwhile, American scientists have found that most infections are more likely to occur in so-called “super spreaders” such as restaurants, gyms and cafes. Researchers at Stanford University in California showed this in the journal “Nature” using a computer model and used demographic data, epidemiological estimates, and anonymous data from mobile phones, among other things. The model looks at where people go during the day, how long they stay, and how many other people are in the same place, and it found the highest number of infections where multiple people spend a lot of time in closed rooms.
Between March and May, the model, which also takes into account people’s ethnic and financial background, examined the behavior of about 98 million people in ten American metropolitan areas, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, according to the research team. computer scientist Jure Leskovec.
Stays at about 553,000 locations were examined, including restaurants, gyms, pet stores, hardware stores and religious institutions. Furthermore, the model was gradually improved with the infection rate verified in the respective cities. In the future, the computer model could help authorities fight a further spread of the virus, according to the researchers.
