America is the country that is at fist in the corona cases. Public health officials in the US say that even as the new coronavirus continued to spread, fewer people were winding up in the hospital because of Covid-19, and fewer were dying. Now, as the seasons turn, there are signs suggesting there will be more deaths and serious illness ahead. Data collected by the COVID Tracking Project shows that the number of people hospitalized has plateaued at about 30,000 in the past week, after a drop from nearly 60,000 that began in late July.

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Deaths in the country, meanwhile, estimated about 750 over the seven days through Sunday, higher than the roughly 600 deaths a day in the first week of July. Scientists had hoped that a warm-weather reprieve could soften an expected re-emergence of the coronavirus in the colder months. Instead, the disease continued to spread across the country after Memorial Day, with early-summer outbreaks in Sun Belt states accompanied by the recent increase of new infections in the Upper Midwest and on college campuses nationwide.

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Any indication hospitals are attending to more coronavirus patients is likely to reignite concerns that the health-care system could be overcome by new cases as the weather cools and more activities, including school and holiday socializing, move indoors. History and science recommend the second winter with coronavirus is likely to be worse than the first. The pathogen is more entrenched and most respiratory viruses circulate primarily in the winter months.

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