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Vaccination is being done in the United States, but the situation is not improving right away.
With all-time records of deaths and inpatients, Los Angeles is said to have run out of not only hospital rooms but also oxygen tanks.
In New York, correspondent Kim Jong-won reports.
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number of hospitalized coronavirus patients per day in the United States reached 125,000 as of the 29th.
The problem is that the number of rooms in hospitals doesn't keep up with inpatients.
In Los Angeles, the United States, which is already experiencing a medical collapse, ambulances carrying patients are constantly rushing into hospitals.
[Emergency room nurse: (since patients started entering) 10 hours have passed, but there are still many ambulances out there.
It continues to come in.]
Following the shortage of hospital rooms, even the oxygen tanks in the intensive care unit have run out, and even the corpse storage container vehicle that appeared in place of the full morgue is running out of space.
[Emergency room nurse: Our morgue is already full.
It is also a matter of time before the shortage of refrigeration trucks for temporary body storage is also a matter of time.]
Given this situation, the number of deaths continues to rise.
On the 29th, the number of deaths per day from the corona was 3,700, the worst ever.
[Robert Kip Farley/Epidemiologist: It's an explosion over an explosion.
I honestly think that now we are going through a'virus tsunami' that has gone beyond a phase of proliferation or explosion.
It is more than a simple proliferation or explosion.] With
the number of tens of millions of people on this Christmas holiday trip, the so-called'viral tsunami' is expected to continue for the next two to three months.