US hospitals are flooded with patients with COVID-19 as the number of people admitted to intensive care units reaches alarming levels, new data show.
According to the COVID follow-up project, 129,748 people were treated in hospitals for Monday’s virus.
It marked the 41st consecutive day that COVID-19 hospitalizations reached 100,000.
The online tracker identified hospital hot spots across the country.
“These record levels of hospitalization are not evenly distributed: as hospitalizations in the Midwest and Mountain West have continued to decline, they have increased in California and throughout the southern United States, ”the project said.
Maps have shown that many regions – especially in Southern California and Arizona – have patients with COVID-19 who account for more than 45 percent of intensive care.
Golden State hospitalizations have risen to levels with more than 22,633 coronavirus patients, of whom about 4,971 are in the IU, the data show.
The COVID follow-up project said that “hospitalizations in Arizona have far exceeded the state’s summer growth and continue to grow every day.”
The state of the Grand Canyon has about 4,997 people hospitalized for the virus, with about 1,158 in the ICU, according to the data.
Relevant figures come as the country recorded 1,739 virus-related deaths and more than 194,000 new infections, the data show.