US Health Workers fight As Virus Numbers spurt
US Health Workers fight As Virus Numbers spurt
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Doctors and nurses around the United States are becoming demoralized and exhausted as they struggle to tackle a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 patients that is overwhelming hospitals and prompting governors to clamp back down to contain the virus. New York Gov Andrew Cuomo on Friday banned indoor dining in New York City, saying he had been waiting in vain for hospitalization rates to stabilize.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf did the same on Thursday and also suspended school sports and closed gyms, theatres and casinos. A record of over 1,07,000 people were in the hospital in the US with COVID-19 as of Thursday, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Over 290,000 Americans have died of the virus. Hospitals around the country have been overrun.

Health care workers will be among the first to start getting the nation's first COVID-19 vaccine in the coming days after the Food & Drug Administration gave it the final approval Friday. Before the pandemic, an ICU nurse might handle two patients per shift. Ban said she now regularly cares for four or five. The national death toll doesn't begin to capture what COVID-19 does to each critically ill patient or the medical teams who care for them, she said.

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