Hospitalizations for Covid have started to increase in the United States as the nation enters the last holiday weekend of summer, jumping nearly 19% from the previous week, with public health authorities fearing rapid spread of the virus with a new school year starting, CBS News reports.
More than 15,000 people were hospitalized for Covid last week, an 87% increase from the previous month, but still only a third of the number of hospitalizations a year before. Officials forecast that the spread of the virus will continue through September, with some predicting as many as 9,700 daily hospital admissions by the beginning of October.