WEST ALLIS, Wis. — A hospital in Idaho is 99 percent full and warning that it may have to transfer coronavirus patients to hospitals in Seattle and Portland, Ore. Medical centers in Kansas City, Mo., turned away ambulances on a recent day because they had no room for more patients. And in West Allis, just outside Milwaukee, an emergency field hospital erected on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair admitted its first virus patient this week. At least 14 states saw more people hospitalized for the virus on a day in the past week than on any other day in the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project. Patients are now spread more broadly across the country, with troubling hot spots from North Dakota to Kentucky. And experts worry that the growing numbers in need of hospital care will only get worse if cases continue to mount.

Source: New York Times October 23, 2020 06:56 UTC