Coronavirus live updates: More than 85,000 covid patients hospitalized nationwide, shattering more records.

3 min readNov 24, 2020

The number of coronavirus patients hospitalized across the United States shattered records on Monday, topping 85,700. Although some of the hardest-hit states are beginning to report fewer new infections, Thanksgiving travel and gatherings could reverse that trend. Even after cases peak, deaths will continue rising for several weeks.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is calling for Italians not to ski over next month’s Christmas holidays — and requesting neighboring European countries to agree upon shared ski rules — as Europe grapples with its latest surge in coronavirus cases.

Italy cannot plan “to allow holidays on the snow,” Conte said. “We cannot afford it.”
He told Italian TV station La7 that he has spoken to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel about how they can design a “shared protocol” to avoid spreading contagion.
“I think it is a European problem,” he said, according to Reuters. “If Italy decided to shut down all its ski lifts without any support from France, Austria and the other countries, then Italian tourists would risk going abroad and taking the contagion back home.”

But in his comments late Monday, Conte seemed reluctant to accept that restrictions would do enough to slow the spread of the virus.
“The protocol is one thing, but everything that revolves around holidays on the snow is uncontrollable,” Conte told Italy’s La7 television station.
Earlier this year, the Austrian state of Tyrol — a popular skiing destination in the Alps — announced that skiing would not be canceled this year, but that post-ski festivities known as “après-ski” would be. At least four civil lawsuits have been filed against Austrian officials, blaming post-ski activities for large coronavirus outbreaks.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) offered a smug prediction four months ago. Those efforts to contain the coronavirus that has now killed more than 250,000 in the United States? Just political opportunism, he said.

Coronavirus live updates: More than 85,000 covid patients hospitalized nationwide, shattering more records.

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