U.S. reports more than 2,800 deaths
from COVID-19 in single day....
More than 2,800 COVID-19 deaths were reported Wednesday
in the United States -- the most the country has ever reported
in a single day -- as health care officials say their staff and
facilities are struggling to support burgeoning numbers of patients.
The number of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals Wednesday
-- 100,226, according to the COVID Tracking Project -- also is the
highest reported on a given day during the pandemic.
One-day death totals can draw from delayed reports across several
days.
Still, recently soaring daily rates of infections and hospitalizations
has various experts predicting the daily death count could regularly
surpass 2,000 or 3,000, and perhaps approach 4,000.
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