US coronavirus hospitalizations exceed 100,000 for first time, data shows

Published December 3, 2020 2:07am ET



More than 100,000 people in the United States are hospitalized because of COVID-19 for the first time since the pandemic began as hospitals across the country brace for a likely post-Thanksgiving surge, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

The only downward trend in U.S. coronavirus data is testing, the project noted. Though data shows a sign of trending back up, testing plummeted around the Thanksgiving holiday, dropping from an average of 1.8 million on Nov. 25 to 1.5 million on Wednesday.

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