Hospitals Overflowing With Bodies, Death Toll Tops 10,000 In US - The Epicentre Of Coronavirus

The United States has emerged as one of the world's worst-hit countries, with a steadily mounting number of fatalities and millions facing the possibility of economic ruin. The death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics. The US has the third-highest number of reported deaths from the disease in the world, only exceeded by Italy and Spain. Here's what conditions in various medica...Read More

Anuj TiwariUpdated: Apr 07, 2020, 18:38 IST

The United States has emerged as one of the world's worst-hit countries, with a steadily mounting number of fatalities and millions facing the possibility of economic ruin. The death toll from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University statistics. The US has the third-highest number of reported deaths from the disease in the world, only exceeded by Italy and Spain.

Here's what conditions in various medical facilities in the country look like.

EMS paramedics wearing a protective suit to load a potential coronavirus disease patient for transport.

"It's going to be the peak hospitalisation, peak ICU week and unfortunately, peak?death?week," Admiral Brett Giroir, a physician and member of the White House?coronavirus?task force, was quoted by the American media.

Gene Campbell talks through a window with his wife of more than 60 years. The US official said the US had entered the "peak death week" of the coronavirus on Monday.

A health care worker tests a person at a drive-thru testing station run by the state health department, for people who suspect they have novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.

White House medical experts have forecast that between 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die as a result of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, even if sweeping orders to stay home are followed.

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Anuj Tiwari

Anuj Tiwari writes stories for SEO and is a Youtube wizard. An engineer turned social media champ, he keeps a track of all that goes around the world. His interest areas include historic events, political and social-sciences.

Hospitals Overflowing With Bodies, Death Toll Tops 10,000 In US - The Epicentre Of Coronavirus

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