Hospitals in the United States are filling up rapidly as the Delta variant sends COVID-19 cases surging to a six-month high, with the U.S. averaging 100,000 cases for three days in a row
In neighboring Texas, Governor Greg Abbott asked hospitals to postpone elective surgeries as the variant raged through swathes of the country including many southern states grappling with low vaccination rates.
"We saw the largest single-day increase in hospitalizations and have eclipsed our previous high of COVID hospitalizations," Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said on Twitter. "There are currently only eight ICU beds available in the state." The head of the nation's second-largest teachers' union on Sunday announced a shift in course by backing mandated vaccinations for U.S. teachers in an effort to protect students who are too young to be inoculated.A critical care respiratory therapist works with a coronavirus disease positive patient in the intensive care unit at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, February 11, 2021.
"It is one of the biggest crowds I have seen," Meade County Sheriff Ron Merwin said in an email. "I think there will definitely be some spread."
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