Hospitals in the US are flooded with COVID-19 patients as the number of people admitted to intensive care units reaches an alarming level, new data show.
According to the COVID Tracking Project, 129,748 people were treated for the virus in hospitals on Monday.
It was the 41st consecutive day that the COVID-19 hospitalizations were more than 100,000.
The online tracker identified the hotspots in hospitals across the country.
‘“These record hospitalization levels have not been evenly distributed: as hospitalizations in the Midwest and Mountain West have continued to decline, they have risen in California and throughout the American South,” the project said.
Maps have shown that COVID-19 patients in many regions – particularly in Southern California and Arizona – occupy more than 45 percent of their ICUs.
Hospitalizations in the Golden State have climbed to alarming levels with more than 22,633 coronavirus patients, of whom about 4,971 are in the ICU, the data show.
The COVID tracking project said Arizona’s “hospitalizations far exceeded the state’s summer boom and continue to grow every day.”
According to the data, about 4,997 people were admitted to the hospital in the Grand Canyon state for about 1,158 hospitals.
The data showed that the country recorded 1,739 virus-related deaths and more than 194,000 new infections.