Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew Conlen, The New York Times
Published: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST
Updated: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds, federal data show, revealing a newly detailed picture of the nation’s hospital crisis during the deadliest week of the Covid-19 epidemic. The New York Times
In El Paso, Texas, hospitals reported that just 13 of 400 intensive care beds were not occupied last week. In Fargo, North Dakota, there were just three. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, there were zero.
Eric Nagourney and Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times Published: 10 Dec 2020 09:48 PM BdST Updated: 10 Dec 2020 09:48 PM BdST An El Paso County Sheriff s Officer tries to block photographs from being taken as bodies are moved to refrigerated trailers, deployed during a surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths, outside the County of El Paso Medical Examiners Office in El Paso, Texas, US November 16, 2020. Reuters
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Late Wednesday in the United States, the daily death toll exceeded the record set just one week earlier: 2,885.
By midnight it had climbed to 3,053, and total deaths since the coronavirus spread into the country at the beginning of the year and began laying siege had reached 289,529.
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