November 13, 2020 – The U.S. topped 160,000 new coronavirus cases on yesterday, the first day over 150,000 since the pandemic began — an alarming new high that came just over a week after the country first experienced 100,000 cases in a single day.
The pandemic has risen to crisis levels in much of the nation, especially the Midwest, as hospital executives warn of dwindling bed space and as coroners deploy mobile morgues, reports The New York Times.
More than 100,000 coronavirus cases have been announced nationwide every day since Nov. 4, and six of the last nine days have broken the previous record.
Hospitalizations for Covid-19 also set a record on Thursday, climbing to 67,096, according to the Covid Tracking Project. It was the third straight day of record numbers, and the figure has doubled in just five weeks.
Deaths are rising, too, with more than 1,000 on average each day.
Case numbers are trending upward in 46 states and holding relatively steady in four. No state is seeing cases decline.
Thirty-one states — from Alaska and Idaho in the West to Connecticut and New Hampshire in the East — added more cases in the 7-day period ending Wednesday than in any previous week of the pandemic.
Vermont, Utah, and Oregon were among at least 10 states with single-day case records on Thursday.