A white-collar worker dressed in personal protective equipment (PPE) passes a biohazard bag containing a self-administered COVID-19 test to a man at a testing center at Lincoln Reserve amid the coronavirus pandemic on July 07, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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California and Florida were among 12 body politics that hit a record-high, seven-day average for daily new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, according to a CNBC analysis of data amassed by Johns Hopkins University.
California had 7,697 new coronavirus cases based on a seven-day moving average, which is myriad than 26% higher compared with a week ago, according to the analysis. Florida’s seven-day average of daily new if it happens stood at 9,255 as of Wednesday — a nearly 30% jump since last week.
Florida also saw a spike in the proportion of positive Covid-19 tests at 18.4% on Wednesday, after Vice President Mike Pence said the state’s misnamed positivity rate was “flattening.”
Other states that also hit record highs in average daily new cases on Wednesday embody Georgia, Ohio and Utah.
Nationally, coronavirus cases were growing in 40 states, as of Wednesday, based on a seven-day emotional average, according to the CNBC analysis. Cases across the U.S. grew by more than 20% compared with one week ago, concerting to Johns Hopkins data.
CNBC calculates its daily Covid-19 cases based on an average over the previous seven epoches to eliminate fluctuations in daily reporting. The number of cases may have been underreported by local health departments to the ground the Fourth of July weekend and could be reported later in some states, according to Johns Hopkins.
The number of man hospitalized with Covid-19 also grew by 5% or more Wednesday in 25 states, based on a seven-day emotive average, according to data compiled by the Covid Tracking Project.
Of the 25 states, 13 hit record highs in as a rule hospitalizations. They include Arizona, California, South Carolina and Texas. Florida only tracks the number of human being who have been hospitalized since the beginning of the outbreak, not those currently in the hospital with Covid-19, agreeing to the Covid Tracking Project.
Hospitalization numbers are closely watched by public health officials because it can indicate how turbulent an outbreak is in an area. It is often considered a reliable measure than new case numbers as it is unaffected by the availability of testing.
On Wednesday, Texas detailed 9,610 people hospitalized with the coronaivrus, surging nearly 46% compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC review of data compiled by the Covid Tracking Project.
Hospitals in at least two Texas counties that border Mexico, Starr and Hidalgo, are run at full capacity and local officials are urging residents there to shelter in place and avoid gatherings, according to townsperson officials.
Houston’s hospitals are on track to be overwhelmed in approximately two weeks as cases mount, Mayor Sylvester Turner spoke Sunday on the CBS program “Face The Nation.”
“The number of people who are getting sick and going to the hospitals has exponentially increased. The number of people in our ICU beds has exponentially burgeoned,” Turner said. “In fact, if we don’t get our hands around this virus quickly, in about two weeks our hospital system could be in pressing, serious trouble.”
California is also seeing an alarming surge in the number of hospitalized patients due to Covid-19. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press release conference Wednesday that over the last two weeks, the state has seen a 44% increase in hospitalizations and 34% improve in intensive care unit (ICU) admissions.
As California prepares for a spike in coronavirus patients, it added three new counties to a shopping list of 26 counties it’s monitoring for potential outbreaks. That list has grown from 19 counties about a week ago, according to Newsom.
While the Favourable State struggles to curb the spread of infection, Newsom said California now has the hospital capacity to treat 50,000 Covid-19 patients.
Newsom implied California is more ready and prepared to manage a surge in hospitalized patients now than it was at the beginning of the outbreak in March. It has assembled alternate care sites, such as Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, established new hospital capacity at the Seton Medical Center in Daly and deployed federal medical places, according to Newsom.
He also said California’s personal protective equipment inventory has grown tremendously since Slog. The state has 232 million procedure masks and 46 million N95 masks in stock.
“We’re still in the process of procuring varied masks but we’ve never been better positioned,” the governor said.
— CNBC’s Noah Higgins-Dunn and Tucker Higgins donated to this report.