BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, TruthoutPUBLISHEDNovember 12, 2020SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email

On November 10,The Atlanticpublishedan article titled “The Worst Day of the Pandemic Since May.” The piece reported that 61,964 people were hospitalized with COVID-19, 17 states were at peak hospitalizations, and the nation’s health care system was trembling on the verge of collapse, again.

Two days later, it is much worse.

More than142,000 new COVID cases— another new daily record — were diagnosed today, bringing the overall count to 10 million total infections nationwide. Nearly 242,000 people have died. “On Wednesday,” reportsThe New York Times, “65,368 people were hospitalized with Covid-19, a figure that has doubled in little over…