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Posted: 2020-12-03T00:25:59Z | Updated: 2020-12-04T20:29:12Z

More than 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 , a grim record amid three straight weeks of them: Every day since Nov. 9 has seen more Americans hospitalized than at the peak of the first wave of this virus this spring, with more admissions every day.

This spring, hospital occupancy peaked on April 15 at 59,924, according to data provided by The Atlantics COVID Tracking Project. That record held until Nov. 10, when the U.S. saw 62,059 hospitalized; the number has crept steadily higher every day since.

Of the 100,226 currently hospitalized, 19,396 are in intensive care units and 6,855 are on a ventilator.

The United States recorded 2,804 deaths on Wednesday, the highest number ever recorded during the pandemic, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University . The previous one-day high of 2,603 deaths was set on April 15.