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"No question our hospitals are about to be overrun," said Dr. Michael Osterholm. "Don't be surprised when we hit 200,000 [cases] a day."
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The U.S. set a grim new record on Tuesday, with more than 60,000 Americans hospitalized with the
coronavirus, according to the
COVID Tracking Project. More than 100,000 new cases have been confirmed every day for the past week and one advisor to President-elect Joe Biden said that number could soon double.
"No question that our hospitals are about to be overrun," said Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of Mr. Biden's new
coronavirus advisory board. "Do not be at all surprised when we hit 200,000 cases a day."
Hospitals in every corner of the country are being maxed out on capacity. Fifteen states have seen coronavirus hospitalizations double in the last month. In New Mexico, hospitalizations tripled in a month.
Dr. Cameron Cantor, the chief medical officer at Oklahoma University Health issued a warning. "If our current rate of infection is not heard, we will run out of beds and staff."
In Idaho, one of the state's largest hospitals had to temporarily turn away patients the last two weekends because there was no room.
Dr. Julio Novoa, an OB-GYN in El Paso, got the virus and passed it on to his wife.
"It's something scary, it's your life. You know, it could be life or death," Danielle Novoa said.