Updates: Fall pandemic surge continues unabated in U.S. (Source usatoday.com)

The U.S. set a record this week for new COVID-19 cases over a seven-day period with more than 500,000 infections. Daily U.S. coronavirus hospitalizations surpassed 45,000 for the first time since mid-August this week as the autumn surge continues unabated. Wisconsin is on track to run out of ICU beds, and nurses to staff them, in as little as two weeks as the state reported 5,200 positive COVID-19 cases Tuesday with only 187 beds available. Two “superspreader” events in New York, a wedding and birthday party, left 56 people infected with the virus and nearly 300 in quarantine.