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More than 100,000 people are currently hospitalized for COVID-19 in the United States, according to data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Covid-19 hospitalizations have been on the rise in the country for about seven weeks, since the beginning of July.
They have almost tripled in the last month and have grown 10% in the last week alone.
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The latest covid-19 hospitalizations topped 100,000 in January, and current hospitalizations (100,317 in total) are roughly 71% of the January 14 peak, according to HHS data.
Florida and Texas account for nearly a third (31%) of all current covid-19 hospitalizations.
Florida currently has the worst per capita hospitalization rate in the country, about 80 hospitalizations per 100,000 people, followed by Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana, each with more than 55 hospitalizations per 100,000 people.
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