Photo / APAs the coronavirus surges out of control in the US, the nation's top public health agency has pleaded with Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving and not to spend the holiday with people from outside their household. The CDC issued the recommendations just one week before Thanksgiving, at a time when diagnosed infections, hospitalisations and deaths are skyrocketing across the country. Keeping up with non-Covid-19 casesHospitals are struggling to keep up with non-coronavirus cases ranging from broken bones to heart attacks in states where Covid-19 cases are tying up resources. Earlier this month, the Mayo Clinic Health System in Wisconsin announced it was suspending elective medical procedures. In Kansas, 178 employees and doctors at a Topeka hospital had active coronavirus cases or were isolated and on leave because of contact with someone who had coronavirus.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 20, 2020 01:18 UTC