A medical worker wheels a body to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York
WASHINGTON, April 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States now has at least 367,507 cases of the coronavirus and 10,908 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Some 29,887 new cases and 1,265 deaths were reported on Monday alone, according to JHU.
The total includes cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as all repatriated cases.
Wyoming is the only state not yet reporting a death from coronavirus.
As infections spike in the United States, hospitals are running out of space, beds, and equipment like ventilators.
To address the issue, some states are instead turning to other spaces as alternative medical sites.
In Alaska, the Alaska Airlines Center sports arena is being fitted with more than 150 hospital beds to prepare for a possible surge in patients. The center is located at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, and can typically seat 5,000 people.
The similarly-sized Carlson Center in Alaska’s Fairbanks is also being prepared to admit patients.
Meanwhile in New Orleans, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has been turned into a medical monitoring station with 1,000 beds.
The facility frees up ICU beds in hospital. All patients will arrive directly from hospitals and there will be no walk-up admission.
There are now more than 1.34 million confirmed cases globally. This does not reflect the number of active cases, as many of these patients have recovered, but rather the total number of infections since the pandemic began. — NNN-AGENCIES
