also documented the highest number of COVID-19 cases confirmed in a single day with 195,695 new cases, leading to The COVID Tracking Project’s total to reach more than 13.7 million cases.
The country recorded its highest amount of deaths in one day since May with 2,733 new deaths Wednesday.The record-high of new cases and current hospitalizations comes on the same day that the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield predicted the next three months will be “the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation.â€.Health officials have cautioned that the Thanksgiving gatherings across the country will likely contribute to higher cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the coming weeks