With an 80% fatality rate on ventilators, why are they being used? These people are following the same protocol as some New York hospitals allegedly took to manufacture an emergency in their State. Death panels established for no real reason. Murder. Drawing people in and killing them.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8488397/Hospitals-strained-push-past-capacity-states-coronavirus-surging.html

Hospitals are being strained as they near or push past capacity in states where cases of the novel coronavirus are surging.

Doctors and nurses across the South and West, including Arizona, Mississippi and Texas, say they're running out of space and equipment as new patients are admitted.

Rooms have double the normal amount of beds, elective surgeries have been put on hold and hospital administrators are asking healthcare workers from other states to come help.

And, in the most dire cases, medical care professionals have to determine which patients get put on a ventilator and which don't.

On Thursday, more than 55,000 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed in the US, the highest single-day increase in cases.

Deaths, which had been on the downward, rose with more than 700 fatalities recorded on Thursday.

The Washington Post reports that number is a 25 percent increase compared to the most recent seven-day rolling average.

Admiral Dr Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health for the US Department of Health and Human Services, said the jump in cases is due to new infections, not from a rise in testing.

'There is no question that the more testing you get, the more you will uncover - but we do believe this is a real increase in cases,' he told the House Select Committee on Coronavirus on Thursday.

'We are not flattening the curve right now. The curve is still going up.'

In Arizona, one of the nation's new hotspots, hospitalizations and ICU capacity reached record-highs.

The Arizona's Department of Health Services revealed that 3,031 people were hospitalized and that ICU capacity reached 91 percent.

According to department data, 741 of those 1,520 patients are being treated for coronavirus.

Gov Doug Ducey, who had been reluctant to go back into lockdown, earlier this week ordered several businesses included bars, gums and movie theaters to close for 30 days.

Water parks and tubing also closed and events in the state weren't allowed to have more than 50 people.

In Arizona, if hospitalizations go past capacity, patients will be given a score based on life expectancy and whether or not they have any underlying conditions to determine if they are put on a ventilator, reported The Post.

'It's actually possible that we could become the next New York City,' Roberta Schwartz, president of Houston Methodist Hospital, told the newspaper.