//More people in the US are hospitalized with Covid-19 than ever before

More people in the US are hospitalized with Covid-19 than ever before

Catrina Rugar, 34, a traveling nurse from Florida, treats Covid-19 patients at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas. The coronavirus is spreading rapidly through the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. | Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

With daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths still on the rise, the coronavirus pandemic is not slowing down in the US.

More Americans are currently hospitalized with Covid-19 than at any prior point in the pandemic, a grim milestone that indicates the coronavirus pandemic is not slowing down in the US.

On July 22, 59,628 people across the United States were in the hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus, according to data from 48 states, two territories, and Washington, DC, collected by the Covid Tracking Project; that total surpassed the previous daily high of 59,539 on April 15, when the New York City area