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US, the Corona 19 situation is approaching the worst.
California, with a cumulative number of 2 million confirmed cases, is dying about one in every 10 minutes, as hospital rooms are scarce and no more patients are accepted.
This is Kim Jong-won from New York.
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a hospital in California, USA, patients are lying next to the entrance door.
The beds on which the patient was lying are also lined up in the hospital corridors.
The doctor's office and patient waiting room were set up in the parking lot outside the hospital.
The medical collapse situation, where hospital rooms are full and can no longer accommodate patients, has become a reality.
In Los Angeles, California, on the 24th of Christmas Eve, nearly 150 people died a day, and 6,500 were hospitalized.
The Los Angeles County Health Department says there is one death every 10 minutes. Next week, the situation gets worse and the number of patients will increase by 1,000 to 7,500.
[Jim Kinney/Emergency Specialist: The biggest problem right now is taking care of all these patients.
Most emergency departments are now collapsed.]
Southern states such as Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia are also showing signs of a winter pandemic.
In Tennessee last week, the rate of confirmed coronaviruses was 128 per 100,000, higher than 111 per 100,000 in California, which currently has the largest cumulative confirmed case in the United States.
The worst coronavirus situation is expected to continue for the time being, as the general public's vaccination is expected to be available only next spring, and the medical collapse has also occurred.