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U.S. Covid Hospitalizations Near 80,000 as Records Topple Daily
A medical worker grabs a hand of a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at a hospital in Houston, Texas, on Oct. 31.
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American hospitals are reeling as another spike in cases threatens to overwhelm capacity and drive up deaths.
Almost 80,000 patients are hospitalized with Covid-19 in the U.S. -- another high in a week that has pushed up the record every day since Nov. 10. California, Texas and Illinois made up almost a quarter of all hospital stays.