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The US just topped 1,100 coronavirus deaths a day
One state is getting National Guard help, and others keep breaking recordsYou know Covid-19 is out of control when health officials are so overwhelmed, they can't notify close contacts who may be infected.
That's what's happening in North Dakota, one of 31 states suffering more new Covid-19 cases this past week compared to the previous week.
Contact tracing is crucial to finding possible carriers of coronavirus, so they can quarantine and break the chain of infection.
But a "sharp increase" in new cases has engulfed contact tracers, leading to delays and "a backlog of positive cases that have yet to be assigned to a case investigator," the North Dakota Department of Health said this week.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-us-just-topped-1100-coronavirus-deaths-a-day-one-state-is-getting-national-guard-help-and-others-keep-breaking-records/ar-BB1ahxzj?li=BBnb7Kz