You're listening to Comedy Central.

The coronavirus pandemic.

It's the reason we're all still working from home,

and also why you're running around looking like a salad bar.

Despite the fact that we totally ignored the virus,

it looks like it is refusing to go away,

which means all over the US, the news looks like this.

For the first time ever, US coronavirus infections

have reached a record 100,000 new cases in one day,

and we're now inching our way toward the nine and a half million mark.

In battleground states like Arizona,

Wisconsin and Texas, COVID was top of mind for many Americans this election,

but it's front and center every day for doctors like Jason Mitchell.

This is the highest volumes that we've seen throughout this pandemic.

As many focus on election results,

first responders are still struggling to save lives with COVID cases climbing in 43 states.

We cannot afford to lose anymore lives.

Colorado is now accepting patients from outside its borders,

but like other regions, they too are facing a 100 percent spike in new cases.

Though the mortality rate has improved,

the volume in cases is accounting for an increase in deaths in 32 states.

That's right, people.

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