A map representing the total number of COVID-19 hospital admissions by state for the week ending January 27, 2024. Dark blue denotes states where hospitalization totalled over a thousand ...

Nurses care for a COVID-19 patient at UMass Memorial Hospital on Dec. 4. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images The Grand Canyon State has around 4,997 people hospitalized for the virus with about ...

"Flatten the curve" has almost become a rallying cry in the US this week. The phrase refers to efforts to keep people apart to slow the US' surge in coronavirus cases so that the number of sick ...