The new high, just as troubling, is just one part of many alarming indicators that experts have pointed out in advance: unprecedented fall and winter growth, which is likely to continue to worsen.
And every day, states across the country keep reporting alarming patterns. New cases have been reported in at least 36 states over the past week, while Johns Hopkins said only three states, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, are trending in the right direction.
In Reg Reagan, health officials reported 597 reported new cases on Wednesday, the sixth highest number in a week at 50,000. And the state’s one-day record, cases00 cases, was set on October 30. Wisconsin broke its daily case count record on Wednesday. There are more than 5,930 cases, with both Illinois and Ohio recording their second-highest daily cases.
And public health officials are urging residents to pay attention to health measures that have been shown to be effective in preventing the spread of the virus – such as face masks and helping to prevent social stigma – so they are also concerned about what comes next. With just weeks left of the Thanksgiving holiday, experts fear that Americans will put down their guards and choose to gather with family and friends and help spread the already enormous spread of the virus.
Section on local lockdown
In a statement to CNN, Gov. of Texas. Greg Abbott, El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samnigo, criticized the order, saying the judge closed businesses “illegally” in response to the additional infection.
Samanigo ordered the closure of all essential services last week, saying at the time that hospitals and healthcare professionals were panicking and without responding, “we will see unprecedented levels of death.” On Wednesday, the city of El Paso reported 3,100 new infections, with a 7-day positivity rate of about 22.82%.
Another record was set for hospital admissions on Wednesday, with at least 1,041 Kovid-19 patients.
In his statement, Abbott said the county judge “made it clear that they are not enforcing existing protocols valid under the law” that could help control the virus “while allowing businesses to open safely.”
“It has failed to do its job and is now illegally shutting down entire businesses that will do more harm to El Paso residents already suffering economically due to the epidemic. This protocol has proved effective in slowing the spread of summer and will work now, but” if they Only if implemented, ”Abbott said in a statement.
The state’s attorney general announced Tuesday that his office has filed a “temporary restraining order order” to stop the judge’s “illegal lockdown order, which flies against government Greg Abbott’s executive orders on Covid-19.”
The city of Texas is not alone in trying to impose new restrictions amid a nationwide surge of infections.
Connecticut also announced tighter restrictions this week in response to climbing the Covid-19 number, including new restrictions on restaurants, ceremonies and indoor event venues. Gov. Ned Lamont also recommended staying home between 10 and 5 p.m., to limit socialization.
In one part of Kansas, the nearest 6-hour ICU bed
In Kansas, government Laura Kelly said it was another “very difficult week” for the virus to spread in the state and that it had admitted “91 new Covid-19 related hospitals” across the state since Monday.
The governor said that in rural areas in general, the problem was particularly acute – a problem that was becoming a problem in some parts of the state. The governor said at least one hospital was about six hours away from the nearest ICU bed last week.
Hospitalized in at least 16 states on Wednesday, the project said 1,000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus in 20 states.
In Kentucky, the governor said in a statement that hospital admissions are increasing every day.
“These are many Kentucky people who are fighting for their lives,” Governor Andy Basheer said in a statement. “There’s a lot of pain and it beats everyone. We think about every family, whether we know you or not. We hurt you and we grieve with you.”
Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Public Health, said officials are concerned that “we will vacate the beds first but we will not have enough healthcare workers to staff all those beds.”
Claudia Dominguez and Justin Sutton of CNN contributed to this report.
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