Hospitals near capacity as U.S. sees record COVID-19 cases and deaths
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Updated Dec 9, 2020 7:19 PM EST
Hospitals are filling up, coronavirus cases continue to break records, and the vaccine may be too late for too many. The White House Coronavirus Task Force now says the current supply of the vaccine "will not substantially reduce viral spread, hospitalizations, or fatalities" until "100 million Americans" are immunized,
"which will take until the late spring
." Until then, they say behavior must change.
According to Bloomberg, 80% of U.S. counties saw even more people traveling this Thanksgiving than last year.
This is what the Thanksgiving surge looks like. "People are on ventilators, people dying. It doesn't end, and there's no way for health care workers to really decompress" said Dr. Scott Samlan, an emergency room doctor in Hammond, Indiana.