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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1248255)	7/20/2020 5:48:27 PM
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"despite the bump-up in daily deaths, we haven't yet returned to the April peak." Patience, Grasshopper. The surge in coronavirus hospitalizations is severe Bob Herman, Andrew Witherspoon Data: The COVID Tracking Project, Harvard Global Health Institute; Cartogram: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios Coronavirus hospitalizations are skyrocketing, even beyond the high-profile hotspots of Arizona, Florida and Texas. Why it matters: The U.S. made it through the spring without realizing one of experts' worst fears — overwhelming hospitals' capacity to treat infected people. But that fear is re-emerging as the virus spreads rapidly throughout almost every region of the country. Where things stand: Arizona remains in the worst shape: 24.4% of all hospital beds in the state are occupied by COVID-19 patients as of July 18, according to an analysis combining data from the COVID Tracking Project and the Harvard Global Health Institute. Texas is second at 19.1%. Nevada is the next worst, with COVID-19 patients taking up 18.6% of all hospital beds. That's up significantly from 11.2% at the start of July.Florida just started tallying current hospitalization data, showing more than 18% of all hospital beds occupied.It gets worse: Many other states are showing significant upticks in coronavirus hospitalizations during the first half of July, including Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Many of these states, which reopened a lot of their economies in May, do not have mask mandates.Between the lines: Intensive-care unit beds, reserved for the sickest patients, are completely full in parts of Arizona, Florida, Mississippi and Texas. Hospitals can convert other areas into ICUs, but that's not all that useful if hospitals don't have enough staff and supplies.The bottom line: Cases have soared over the past 45 days, and hospitalizations naturally follow many of those cases. Rising hospitalizations mean the outbreaks in many areas are not close to being controlled, and some percentage of those hospitalizations will end as deaths. axios.com