Europe's hospital systems are at risk of buckling under the strain of soaring COVID-19 infections that put the continent again at the center of the global pandemic on Wednesday, while nearly two-thirds of U.S. states were in a danger zone of coronavirus spread.
With European case numbers that were brought largely under control by the unprecedented lockdowns in March and April now increasing rapidly, authorities in countries from Poland to Portugal have expressed mounting alarm at the renewed crisis confronting their health infrastructure.
Belgium, struggling with what its health minister called a tsunami of infections, is postponing all non-essential hospital procedures, and similar measures are looming in other countries.
In the United States, 32 of 50 states have entered a danger zone with more than 100 new cases per 100,000 residents over the past week.
Nationally, the country averaged 120 cases per 100,000 people, its highest since a peak in July.
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