US Hits Record Coronavirus Hospitalizations As Over 121,000 People Admitted

According to the COVID Tracking Project, US health officials recorded 121,235 hospitalizations due to the virus yesterday.

The staggering number also marked the 27th consecutive day that the US has surpassed 100,000 hospitalizations.

In the last six days, hospitalizations were as follows: 119,463 on December 23, 120,151 on December 24, 118,948 on Christmas Day, 117,344 on December 26, 118,720 on December 27 and 121,235 on December 28.

As of Monday night, the US has reported more than 19.2 million coronavirus cases, and 334,830 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The country saw a single-day increase of 162,190 positive cases, and 1,491 deaths, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

Health officials have warned of a continued spike in infections and deaths amid Americans traveling for the holiday season.

US air travel hit a pandemic-high on Sunday following Christmas, with at least 1.28 million Americans flying, according to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) data.

It was the sixth day in a row that nearly or more than one million people crisscrossed the country on airplanes despite warnings from public health officials like Dr Anthony Fauci to avoid travel and gatherings during the holidays to slow that rampant spread of COVID-19.

One in every 1,000 Americans has died of the virus in just 11 months since the first case was identified in Washington state.

California has once again emerged as a top hotspot in the country and just last week the state became the first to surpass 2 million cases alone. California officials say hospitalizations for COVID-19 have stabilized in parts of the state but still overwhelm hospitals elsewhere.

California has been regularly breaking records for case counts, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, while officials say models used for planning predict hospitalizations more than doubling in the next month from about 20,000 to more than 50,000.