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the United States, where corona patients are increasing significantly, more than 100,000 patients are admitted to hospitals every day for over a month.
In addition to California, where hospital rooms are already in a state of collapse of copper or medical care, hospital rooms are getting saturated in the eastern United States.
In New York, correspondent Kim Jong-won reports.
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A gym in eastern Massachusetts, in the US, has been partitioned with black tents to create a simple hospital that can care for 77 patients at the same time.
Three-quarters of all emergency rooms in the state are filled with groundbreaking measures.
The problem is that even if a simple hospital is built, it is difficult to operate it in a timely manner due to the lack
of nurses.
Even if you try to build a simple hospital, there are many difficulties with this problem.
So, we signed a contract with a human resources company that can connect nurses nationwide.] In the
United States, more than 100,000 corona patients are hospitalized every day for 33 consecutive days
.
There are concerns that the hospital room will be occupied.
[Jerom Adams/Director of Public Health Service: Even if a traffic accident occurs on a snowy road, the intensive care unit is full and hospitalization is not possible.
What I want to say is, it's true that the current prospect is very scary, but the prospect is just a prospect.
How we act from now on will greatly affect the spread of corona in the future.]
While vaccination is still slow, Moderna has originally increased its plan to produce 500 million doses worldwide this year by 20% to 600 million doses.
As the vaccination rate last year fell far short of the original plan, the US health authorities are focusing on speeding up vaccination.