JUST IN: The United States now has more than 4 million officially recorded Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University
The United States surpassed 4 million officially recorded Covid-19 cases on Thursday, with 4,005,414 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.[Previous version, published at 1:53 p.m. ET]The United States is expected to surpass 4 million officially recorded Covid-19 cases Thursday -- and a quarter of that count will have come in just the last 15 days.
More than 50 hospitals there have reached capacity in their intensive care units, and only 15% of the state's ICU beds are available, the Agency for Health Care Administration said."Any spike in cases or increase in hospitalizations is going to put our ER system and hospital systems in peril," Dr. Damian Caraballo, an emergency room physician in Tampa, told CNN.The spread has promised a bleak outlook for the months ahead, according to both health officials and President Trump.
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