Hospitals are overwhelmed.,some states are beginning to feel the impact of holiday gatherings, Vaccination pace remains slow

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Tue, 2021-01-05 10:45 — mike kraft

Hospitals are already overwhelmed. Now some states are beginning to feel the impact of holiday gatherings Parts of the US are beginning to feel the brunt of last month's holiday celebrations -- at a time when many hospital systems are already at their breaking point. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

(CNN) Parts of the US are beginning to feel the brunt of last month's holiday celebrations -- at a time when many hospital systems are already at their breaking point.

Experts warned that holiday travel and gatherings could help fuel another surge of Covid-19 infections. Yet millions of Americans traveled anyway -- with more than 1.3 million people, a pandemic record -- screened by the TSA on Sunday alone.

That's as the number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals on a given day hit another US record Monday, at more than 128,200, according to the COVID Tracking Project. And some states are warning the worst may be yet ahead.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said the state had "more patients with Covid in ICU beds at the end of last week than we have had at any other period throughout this pandemic."

And he expects "some very large numbers with the spread from the holiday gatherings combined with the backlog and testing and reporting that may have occurred during the last 10 days."

After marking a particularly deadly day in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday there has been a spike following the recent social gatherings that took place.

"It is clear that the increase through the holidays, increased the infection rate and increased the number of people who are now walking into hospitals," the governor said.

In California, where state officials say ICU units in at least two regions are filled to practical capacity, infections are continuing to soar. ...

About 15.4 million doses had been distributed and about 4.5 million had been administered as of Monday morning, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That means fewer than 30% of the vaccine doses distributed in the US have been administered. And only four states have so far administered at least half of the vaccine doses that have been distributed to them, according to the CDC data: Connecticut, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennessee. Meanwhile, in a dozen other states, fewer than a quarter of the doses distributed have been administered. ...

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