The coronavirus surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States this week, as many of the nation’s hospitals are …
The coronavirus surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in the United States this week, as many of the nation’s hospitals are overwhelmed and officials implement new COVID-19 restrictions. From Tuesday to Saturday,1,000,882 new coronavirus cases were reported in the US, according to data from As we move deeper into the holiday season, we are already seeing another rise in coronavirus cases and deaths that came about after millions of Americans chose to travel during the Thanksgiving holidays, and experts say it is likely only going to get worse. « Every single day, thousands more people are getting this virus, and we know that means that in a few days, in a week, hundreds of people are going to be coming to the hospital and hundreds of people are going to die, » Dr. Shirlee Xie, a hospitalist and associate director of hospital medicine for Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, told CNN’s Ana Cabrera. The average of deaths attributable to COVID-19 in the U.S. passed 2,000 for the first time since spring, rising to 2,011. Since last Saturday, an average of 2,000 people have died of the disease each day., Projections coming from the White House show the total number of deaths could hit half a million by March, More than 100,000 Covid-19 patients have been hospitalized nationwide for the past four days, according to the Covid Tracking Project. It must be said that hospitals and ICU nursing staff and doctors have been doing an heroic job of attending to the victims of this national medical emergency.
