On Monday, the HHS released facility-level data of US hospitals from more than 2,000 counties showing that 1 in 3 hospitals across the country had ICUs that were more than 90% full.
Views: Visits 17
Medical staff members Flor Trevino (L) and Susan Paradela attempt to change the bed sheet of a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 7, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images/AFP
American regulators were due to meet Thursday to assess the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, as the country logged one of its worst-ever daily Covid-19 death tolls with more than 3,000 people lost to the pandemic.
Other northern hemisphere countries were also grappling with a winter virus surge, as the number of global infections raced towards 70 million with more than 1.5 million deaths.