{"id":97948,"date":"2020-10-22T14:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T06:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97948"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T06:43:13","slug":"covid-19-us-hospitalisations-hit-two-month-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=97948","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: US hospitalisations hit two-month peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/apicms.thestar.com.my\/uploads\/images\/2020\/10\/22\/907911.JPG\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO EMTs cleanse their materials outside Memorial West Hospital where coronavirus disease COVID-19 patients are treated in Pembroke Pines Florida U.S. July 13 2020. REUTERSMaria Alejandra Cardona\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WISCONSIN, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The number of COVID-19 patients in US hospitals hit 40,000 for the first time since August on Wednesday, as the nation battles a surge in infections led by Midwest states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitals have seen a 36 per cent rise in coronavirus patients over the past four weeks and Midwest hospitals are setting new records every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far in October, 16 states have reported their highest daily numbers of hospitalised COVID-19 since the pandemic started, including the Midwest states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitalisations of virus-stricken patients have set records in every region except the Northeast. Hospitalisations are a closely watched metric because they are not influenced by how much testing is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to hospitalisations reaching 40,264 on Wednesday, the seven-day average of new cases of COVID-19 have risen 45 per cent in the past four weeks and is also approaching levels last seen during the summer peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, the US recorded 69,478 new cases, the highest single-day total since July\u00a024 and the fifth-highest single-day total since the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced that a field hospital in the Milwaukee suburbs admitted its first COVID-19 patient since it opened last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Folks, please stay home,&#8221; Evers said. &#8220;Help us protect our communities from this highly contagious virus and avoid further strain on our hospitals.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In New Mexico, the governor warned that the state&#8217;s healthcare resources might not be enough if coronavirus cases continue to rise at the current pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has started a late-stage trial to evaluate if immune-modulating therapies from three drugmakers can help reduce the need for ventilators for COVID-19 patients and shorten their hospital stay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study will enroll up to 2,100 hospitalised adults with moderate to severe COVID-19 symptoms in the United States and Latin America. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISCONSIN, Oct 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The number of COVID-19 patients in US hospitals hit 40,000 for the first time since August on Wednesday, as the nation battles a surge in infections led by Midwest states. Hospitals have seen a 36 per cent rise in coronavirus patients over the past four weeks and Midwest hospitals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":97951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}