Tonight, we reached an almost incomprehensible milestone: Over just the past month, ~3.4 million people in the United States were identified as having new coronavirus infections.
** That is 1 out of every 100 people in this nation. In one month. **
As we know, deaths tend to lag cases by weeks. But we are already seeing record hospitalizations — currently 79,410 people in the hospital with Covid-19.
In South Dakota, 1 out of every 1,493 people in the state are hospitalized with the virus.
Nov 1: 74,236
Nov 2: 93,659
Nov 3: 92,612
Nov 4: 107,913
Nov 5: 121,529
Nov 6: 132,847
Nov 7: 125,932
Nov 8: 103,416
Nov 9: 130,340
Nov 10: 139,746
Nov 11: 142,860
Nov 12: 163,405
Nov 13: 181,194
68,516 people in the United States are currently hospitalized with Covid-19.
The number of active hospitalizations has nearly doubled in one month.
With a rolling average of 123,315 new U.S. cases per day, the virus is all around us:
• 1 out of every 2,364 people were identified as positive yesterday alone
• Over the past week, it was 1 out of every 382 U.S. residents
• In North Dakota, it was 1 out of 83 in one week
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