U.S. hospitalizations for coronavirus hit record high – Xinhua English.news.cn

According to CNN, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 11, local time, 145,982 people in the United States are currently hospitalized for infection with the new coronavirus, more than in January 2021. On the 14th, about 142,000 hospitalizations peaked, reaching an all-time high.

The data show that the number of new crown hospitalizations in the United States has increased rapidly recently, about twice as much as two weeks ago, and nearly 24,000 intensive care beds are being used to treat patients with new coronary pneumonia. In addition, the number of children hospitalized has far exceeded previous peaks, and nearly 5,000 children are currently hospitalized with confirmed or suspected new coronary pneumonia, almost the peak of last September when the number of children hospitalized with new coronary pneumonia was due to a surge in the spread of the delta strain. double.

According to the U.S. Department of Health Services, the total number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 since August 2020 is about 3.9 million. In the first week of January 2022, about 18,600 people in the United States were hospitalized with the new coronavirus every day. (CCTV reporter Liu Xu)

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