Hospitals across the United States are inundated with COVID-19 patients as the number of people admitted to intensive care units reaches alarming levels, according to new data.
According to the COVID Monitoring Project, there were 129,748 people treated in hospitals for the virus on Monday.
It marked the 41st consecutive day that COVID-19 hospitalizations had exceeded 100,000.
The online tracker identified hospitalization hotspots across the country.
“These record hospitalization levels are not evenly distributed: as hospitalizations in the Midwest and Mountain West have continued to fall, they have increased in California and throughout the southern United States, ”the project said.
Maps showed that many regions, especially in Southern California and Arizona, have COVID-19 patients occupying more than 45 percent of their ICUs.
Hospitalizations in Golden State have risen to worrying levels with more than 22,633 coronavirus patients, of whom about 4,971 are in the ICU, according to the data.
The COVID follow-up project said Arizona hospitalizations have far outpaced the state’s summer hike and continue to grow every day.
According to the data, Grand Canyon State has about 4,997 people hospitalized for the virus, with about 1,158 in the ICU.
The data is shown as the country recorded 1,739 virus-related deaths and more than 194,000 new infections.