COVID-19 USA Daily Numbers, page-270

ABC America Sunday Evening News.

Banner headline, STAGGERING SURGE

"123 614 Starting new year in a hospital suffering Covid"

"And despite advice to stay home nearly 16 million people travelled by air this holiday season and tonight all that travel is fuelling fears of the size of the surge to come"

"Miame beaches and new year parties packed with no social distancing many fearing they'll become super spreader events"

"This weekend Florida recorded record covid infections"

"50 thousand Americans reported dead in the last 19 days"

"California Retirement Homes renting refrigerated trucks as their morgue are overwhelmed with 6 times the usual number of bodies, the state reporting 98 thousand new cases this weekend"

"Dr Peter Chin-Hong Infectious Disease Specialist, we are still seeing the thanksgiving day numbers that why it's so frightening we haven't seen Christmas number yet and certainly not new years holiday numbers"

"In Los Angeles the Mayor says a person is getting infected every 6 seconds and more young people with no preexisting conditions are getting sick and dieing"

"Already in Massachusetts dozens of cases have been linked to Christmas eve services at a single church "

"Even those that survive the virus face a long road to recovery, Michael Arevalo fought back from near death in the hospital but says he still has trouble breathing from lasting lung damage, seeing a physiotherapist twice weekly (the man in tears on screen)"

"And in New York we are starting to see some troubling numbers it is now the fourth state with 1 million confirmed cases and in New York City there are 49 zip codes with positivity above 10%"

"Vaccine Hurdles, vaccinated only 4.2 million people to date well behind schedule"