Dr. Fauci says this is where most people catch the coronavirus

• Each day's coronavirus update for the US seems to set a frightening new record, with the latest 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases in the US topping 131,4000 as of Thursday.
  
• One of the key things driving the explosion in new cases right now is peoples' behavior, which is leading many to congregate in small group settings at home. Perhaps with other family members, especially with the holidays at hand.
• This is why health experts are, sadly, predicting an acute spike in the number of deaths from coronavirus over the next two months or so.

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The message that public health experts have been sharing lately about the current state of the coronavirus pandemic in the US is as follows: It can be summed up, quite succinctly, as "It's getting really bad out there." For an indication of just how much the pandemic is worsening, one of the nation's indispensable journalists covering the health crisis, Ed Young, has a new piece online that he wrote for The Atlantic which provides one of the most sobering end-of-2020 coronavirus updates yet. In Utah, to cite just one of the examples he lays out, the state is reporting around 2,500 confirmed coronavirus cases a day right now -- up about 4 times from its peak over the summer. University of Utah Hospital pulmonary specialist Nathan Hatton says his ICU has about twice as many patients as normal right now, and his shifts last anywhere from 12 to 24 hours, though they can sometimes go as long as 36 hours.

“There are times I’ll come in in the morning, see patients, work that night, work all the next day, and then go home,” Hatton says in Young's piece. How many shifts like this does he have to do? “Too many."

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