USA TODAY is reporting that America's Delta-driven surge of COVID-19 has entered a deadlier phase.
Cases are rising in 42 states, the lowest number in six weeks.
However, deaths are now increasing in 43 states – the worst tally since December, before America's deadliest month of the pandemic.
A USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows deaths in the week ending Monday totalled 7,225.
According to a Politico report, the alarming spread of new COVID cases in the US is draining the pool of available health workers in ways not seen since the pandemic's winter peak.
Hospitals and lawmakers in states gripped by the Delta variant are offering nurses tens of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses, rewriting job descriptions so paramedics can care for patients and pleading for federal help to beef up their crisis-fatigued health care workforces.
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