The United States is heading into the bleakest part of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Idaho is at the top of many of the wrong lists in regard to the pandemic, according to the Nov. 29 White House Coronavirus Task Force weekly report.
“The COVID risk to all Americans is at a historic high. The national daily COVID incidence after Memorial Day, but before the summer surge, was fewer than 25,000 new cases/day and is now more than 180,000 new cases/day,” the report said. “COVID inpatients then were fewer than 30,000 but are now more than 90,000; fatalities have more than doubled. We are in a very dangerous place due to the current, extremely high COVID baseline and limited hospital capacity; a further post-Thanksgiving surge will compromise COVID patient care, as well as medical care overall.”
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