COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States on Tuesday reached 61,964, a record high, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project.
The Tuesday numbers surpass those from April 15, when 59,940 people across the country were hospitalized due to the novel coronavirus.To date, the cumulative number of hospitalizations in the U.S.
has surpassed half a million at 500,692, per the data. News of the hospitalization surge across many states comes as the US earlier this week surpassed 10 million coronavirus cases.