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The United States has surpassed 4 million cases.
By Lara Takenaga and Jonathan Wolfe
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Sinister milestones continue to come. The total number of cases in the United States exceeded 4 million on Thursday, with one million more infections in the past two weeks and only a portion. Virus-like deaths and hospitalizations are also spreading at an alarming rate.
More Covid-19 patients are on track to be hospitalized in the U.S. than at any point in the pandemic, with daily numbers hovering near the peak of 59,940 reached on April 15. Public health experts say detailed local data on hospitalizations is critical during the pandemic, but federal officials have not made those numbers public. To see where people are falling seriously ill, The Times gathered data for nearly 50 metropolitan areas, revealing just how far the devastation has spread.
“The number of instances can be discussed and how it can be reported insufficiently. Evidence can be debated,” said Lázaro Gamio, a graphic editor who worked on the project. “But hospitalizations are a real-time measure of the severity of things.”
In the end, more people in hospitals cause more deaths. Nearly 144,000 more people in the United States have died from the virus and the daily number has increased in recent weeks. Accumulation follows an increase in domestic cases that began in June: The United States now averages more than 66,000 new infections consistent with the day, more than double a month ago, and 39 states are seeing upward trends.
About 60 percent of hospitalizations are now concentrated in the South, according to the Covid Tracking Project, which is run by The Atlantic and collects state hospitalization data. The hardest-hit parts of Texas and Florida have approached the peak per capita rates of hospitalization in New York City in the spring. Some facilities have had to set up tents, send patients to neighboring states and bring in mobile morgues.
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