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Jerome Adams, surgeon general, further warned this morning: “A quarter of all our coronavirus cases this year have occurred in the last month.”
The United States is approaching 12.5 million coronavirus cases and has seen nearly 258,000 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus resource center in Baltimore. These are by a significant margin the highest totals in the world.
Adams, who appeared on Fox News this morning, said of the increase in infections in the last month that: “Those cases are turning into hospitalizations and deaths.”
At the national level, the United States has not controlled the coronavirus for as long as the country has been directly affected by the disease, since January. Experts acknowledge that it is spreading like wildfire across much of the US with the fall rise. And Adams further warned that hospitals under pressure will be forced to reject cardiac patients, pregnant women and others.
“That is the reality,” he said..
Hospitals need immediate relief, Reuters reports.
The United States was on track to surpass 85,000 hospitalizations for Covid-19 on Wednesday, a record.
That has taxed already exhausted healthcare providers as more than 1,500 coronavirus deaths and 171,000 new cases pile up daily.
Many Midwestern hospitals, in particular, lack beds, equipment and clinical staff, providers say.
Some are repurposing areas to accommodate Covid-19 patients or cramming multiple patients into a single room, asking staff to work longer hours and more frequent shifts.
“There is a disconnect in the community, where we see people in bars and restaurants, or we plan Thanksgiving dinners,” he said. Dr. Kelly Cawcutt, doctor specializing in infectious diseases of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. As health workers, she said: “we feel a little dejected.“
