Overnight Health Care — Presented by Rare Access Action Project — US surpasses


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The U.S. passed 50 million COVID-19 cases as hospitals in some states are getting more strained. 

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COVID-19 cases surpass 50 million in US 

The United States on Monday passed 50 million recorded COVID-19 cases, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. 

The grim milestone underscores the toll of the virus in the U.S., where it continues to fuel surges and leave a striking death toll, largely among the unvaccinated. 

Case counts nationally have risen to around 120,000 per day, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Some experts have been deemphasizing case counts as a metric, given that some are usually mild breakthrough cases that occur after someone has been vaccinated. 

But hospitalizations and deaths are also recording alarming trends, largely among the unvaccinated. 

About 1,200 people die from the virus every day, and 65,000 are in the hospital, according to a tracker from The New York Times. A total of about 800,000 people have died from the virus in the U.S. 

Those numbers have been rising again recently as the weather gets colder in northern parts of the country, and people move indoors. 

The omicron variant of the virus poses an additional threat. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths are already on the rise, despite the new variant not yet gaining a predominant foothold in the U.S., where the delta variant still dominates. 

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MINNESOTA WARNS OF ‘OVERWHELMED’ HOSPITALS IN AD

Things are getting dire for Minnesota hospitals. 

Hospital leaders warned in a full-page newspaper ad that they are “overwhelmed” amid a COVID-19 surge and are urging the public to take action. 

“Our emergency departments are overfilled, and we have patients in every bed in our hospitals,” write the leaders of nine hospital systems in the state, including the Mayo Clinic and North Memorial Health. 

The hospitals warn that because their capacity is strained, care for non-coronavirus medical events, like heart attacks, is also threatened.

“Now, an ominous question looms: will you be able to get care from your local community hospital without delay? Today, that’s uncertain,” they write in the ad, which is running in major newspapers across the state.   

Big picture: Minnesota has the third-most per capita COVID-19 cases in the country, according to the COVID Act Now tracking site, behind New Hampshire and Rhode Island. 

Other states are also facing strains at their medical facilities. Massachusetts hospitals, for example, are cutting back on…



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