This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe United States has entered the new year with record numbers of Americans hospitalized with the coronavirus, straining a health-care system bracing for a post-holidays surge that has the potential to further stress hospitals.More than 131,000 covid-19 patients were hospitalized nationwide , eclipsing the record set in the last week of 2020. Facilities across the West and South are especially burdened.Los Angeles County has been so overwhelmed it is running out of oxygen, with ambulance crews instructed to use oxygen...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe United States has entered the new year with record numbers of Americans hospitalized with the coronavirus, straining a health-care system bracing for a post-holidays surge that has the potential to further stress hospitals.More than 131,000 covid-19 patients were hospitalized nationwide , eclipsing the record set in the last week of 2020. Facilities across the West and South are especially burdened.Los Angeles County has been so overwhelmed it is running out of oxygen, with ambulance crews instructed to use oxygen...WW…