US hospitals are being overwhelmed by the surge in coronavirus cases

• As the number of daily coronavirus cases in the United States continues to rise, hospitals in some states are starting to approach their capacity limits.
• According to the CDC, 12 states are seeing their hospitalization numbers rising, including Texas, Arizona, and Florida, which are breaking their own records every week.
• If the rate of hospitalization doesn't slow down, doctors may be forced to decide who gets care and who doesn't based on their likelihood of survival.

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The United States has failed to contain the novel coronavirus. On Wednesday, the US reported 50,000 new cases in a single day, which is a record for the country. In fact, prior to June 25th, the US had never reported 40,000 cases in a day, but these records are now being broken constantly. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said this week that the US could hit 100,000 cases a day if the outbreaks in the South and the West aren't contained. Worst of all, many hospitals are already being overwhelmed.

"In the last three weeks, I have seen more admissions and sicker patients than on the previous 10 weeks," Dr. Joseph Varon, chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, told CNN. "It's been an exponential increase on the severity of illness and on the number of cases that we admit."

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