US hospitals overwhelmed with virus cases as deaths top 250,000

Staff members monitor patients in a corridor of Stormont Vail Heath in Topeka, Kansas (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

Hospital conditions across the US are deteriorating by the day as the coronavirus rages across the country at an unrelenting pace and the death toll surpasses 250,000.

The number of people in the hospital with Covid-19 in the US has doubled in the past month and set new records every day this week.