Hospitals in the US are inundated with COVID-19 patients as the number of people admitted to intensive care units reaches alarming levels, new data shows.
According to the COVID Tracking Project, 129,748 people were sheltered in hospitals on Monday because of the virus.
It was the 41st consecutive day that COVID-19 hospitalizations had reached more than 100,000.
The online tracker located hospitalization hotspots across the country.
“These record numbers of hospital admissions are not evenly distributed: As hospital admissions in the Midwest and the West have continued to decline in the Mountains, they have increased in California and throughout the Southern US, ”the project said.
Maps showed that COVID-19 patients in numerous regions – particularly Southern California and Arizona – occupy more than 45 percent of their ICUs.
Hospital admissions in the Golden State have risen to an alarming level with more than 22,633 coronavirus patients, of whom about 4,971 are in the ICU, the data shows.
The COVID Tracking Project said hospital admissions in Arizona have far exceeded the state’s summer wave and continue to grow every day.
The Grand Canyon State has hospitalized about 4,997 people for the virus, according to the data, with about 1,158 in the ICU.
The figures in question come because the country recorded 1,739 virus-related deaths and more than 194,000 new infections, the data shows.