More than 100,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 in the United States, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). That number puts the US in a worse place than August of last year.
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There were 100,317 people hospitalized with the virus Wednesday — more than double the 48,851 in the hospital on the same day last year.
Covid-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise in the US for about seven weeks — since early July. They’ve nearly tripled in the past month and have grown by 10% in the past week alone.
With 48.3% of the US still not fully vaccinated, cases are on the rise once again, and with them has come strain on hospitals struggling to treat the wave of incoming patients.
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