An average of 120 patients a day contracted COVID-19 inside U.S. hospitals, according to about 9 weeks of previously unpublished federal data provided by the CDC to the Wall Street Journal.
As of 8:00 a.m. ET Wednesday, the unofficial U.S. COVID-19 tally stood at 6,606,674 cases and 195,961 deaths — up 51,431 and 1,414, respectively, in the past 24 hours.
Texas will change the way it calculates its COVID-19 positivity rate after testing backlogs skewed coronavirus data.
