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As hospitals fill with COVID-19 patients, medical reinforcements are hard to find

By WBUR / NPR
| November 30, 2020

Hospitals in much of the country are trying to cope with unprecedented numbers of COVID-19 patients. As of Sunday, 93,238 were hospitalized, an alarming record that far exceeds the two previous peaks in April and July, of just under 60,000 inpatients.

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