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U.S. hospitalizations have reached a record high with more than 141,000 Americans now in hospitals with COVID-19, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.


It's not clear how many of these patients were admitted to the hospital for COVID-19 and how many people tested positive for the virus after they were admitted for other reasons.


Paramedics and emergency medical technicians wait with patients in a hall of the emergency room at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in San Diego, Calif. on Jan. 3, 2022.
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Paramedics and emergency medical technicians wait with patients in a hall of the emergency room at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in San Diego, Calif. on Jan. 3, 2022.
Medical staff treat a COVID-19 patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on Jan. 4, 2022.
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Medical staff treat a COVID-19 patient in their isolation room on the Intensive Care Unit at Western Reserve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on Jan. 4, 2022.
About 25.3% of U.S. hospitals with available data are reporting critical staffing shortages.

In the last week, the U.S. has reported nearly 4.7 million new COVID-19 cases -- the highest weekly case number on record, according to federal data.





New York City holds the nation's highest case rate.