A second wave of the coronavirus is hitting Europe.

The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals has been steadily rising.

People there are now more likely to be hospitalized with Covid-19 than people in the U.S.

Here's what's going on. https://nyti.ms/3jmtm8A 
Where things stand:

— Belgium has postponed non-essential hospital work to deal with an influx of new patients.

— About a fifth of Spain’s ICU beds are already occupied by Covid-19 patients.

— Poland turned its largest stadium into an emergency field hospital with 500 beds.
Hospitalization rates are a key measure of the pandemic’s severity. The rates rise and fall days or weeks behind the tallies of new infections. http://nyti.ms/3jmtm8A 
The situation is worse in the Czech Republic than anywhere else in Europe.

Hospitalizations there surpass the worst period in Britain, and in some regions about 10% of the medical staff is either already infected or in quarantine. http://nyti.ms/3jmtm8A 
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