By Lisa Shumaker and Maria Caspani
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Wisconsin and other states in the Midwest . But it’s not the first time And beyond, they are dealing with outbreaks of COVID-19 cases, with new infections and hospitalizations reaching record levels, a sign of concern of a national resurgence as temperatures drop.
Nine states, adding Michigan and North Carolina, reported a record new infections for one day on Thursday, according to a Reuters count. Michigan set a record for the last time on April 3, at the start of the pandemic in the United States.
(Graphics: US states) But it’s not the first time With record accumulation in COVID-19 cases: https://graphics. reuters. com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-RECORDS/oakveednavr/)
The most recent wave of all-time highs is consistent with the trend observed in October, a month in which part of the 50 US states are in the process of being able to do so. But it’s not the first time They reported their biggest increases in new cases.
In Wisconsin, new instances increased to 3,747 on Thursday, a new daily record. “Our numbers are the best and are developing rapidly,” Wisconsin Health Secretary Andrea Palm said at a press conference.
In some areas, 90% of beds were used in extended care sets in state hospitals. “We know it will get worse before it gets better,” he said.
A cash hospital that opened in a Suburb of Milwaukee in case the number of coronavirus patients exceeds medical services had not yet won patients, he said. Rows of makeshift booths containing beds and medical supplies occupied West Allis Exhibition Park, wisconsin’s home. State fair since the past 1800.
Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, criticized a Wisconsin judge’s decision to block his ordinance that restricts the length of indoor meetings in bars, restaurants, and other businesses. Evers said his administration would defy the judge’s ruling, he announced Wednesday.
“We are at a critical juncture in the war opposed to this virus,” Evers said Thursday. “And just because other people need to see full bars and hospitals doesn’t mean we have to follow their example. “
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Since early October, North Dakota and South Dakota have reported more new cases of COVID-19 consistent with cápit than all countries in the world, Little Andorra. capita this month as the UK, Spain or France, where infections were also on the rise, according to a Reuters analysis.
(Chart: Where coronavirus is expanding and shrinking in the United States: https://graphics. reuters. com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-CASES/nmopaymlopa/)
“It’s quite disturbing,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, said in an interview with ABC television. “We want to duplicate the fundamental public aptitude measures we communicate about every day because they can make a difference. “
The Fauci also warned of the dangers of overt rallies, as President Donald Trump returned to the election after recovering from his own opposing coronavirus combat.
Trump, pushing in the final weeks before the Presidential election on November 3 after being hospitalized by COVID-19, held a giant rally in Iowa on Wednesday, with a maximum of masked assistants.
He continued to minimize the public health risk posed by the virus that killed more than 217,000 Americans.
Hospitalizations at COVID-19 also reached a record Wednesday in Iowa, while the state also recorded its largest accumulation of cases in a day since August 28.
Once the American epicenter of the fitness crisis, New York now faces spikes in infection in several “groups. “Andrew Cuomo said he expected the outbreaks to continue for at least a year.
“The way the world moves forward will be for the virus to elle in some places,” Cuomo told reporters this week.
His efforts to stop local coronavirus epidemics have put him in a two-fronted war with Catholics and Jews, who call on the courts to invoke restrictions claiming to restrict freedom.
Cuomo, a Catholic, said that measures restricting meetings in devout establishments to only 10 other people in certain specific spaces were not intended to isolate devoted teams and were consistent with other measures he has taken to combat the “groups” where infections spread rapidly.
But he also accused Orthodox Jewish communities of being some of the spikes in infection in their regions.
An intensive care nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York told Reuters on Thursday that there were at least a dozen patients with the virus in intensive care, most of whom are Orthodox Jews.
The nurse, who asked not to be identified because it is not legal to speak to the media, said that there were about 50 patients with the virus in her hospital and that number “increases every day. “
(Chart: COVID-19 Global Tracker – https://graphics. reuters. com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/)
(Information through Lisa Shumaker in Chicago and Maria Caspani in New York; Additional information through Gabriella Borter, Peter Szekely and Daniel Trotta; Edited through David Gregorio and Bill Berkrot)