U.S. reports more than 2,800 deaths

from COVID-19 in single day....

More than 2,800 COVID-19 deaths were reported Wednesday

in the United States -- the most the country has ever reported

in a single day -- as health care officials say their staff and

facilities are struggling to support burgeoning numbers of patients.

The number of COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals Wednesday

-- 100,226, according to the COVID Tracking Project -- also is the

highest reported on a given day during the pandemic.

One-day death totals can draw from delayed reports across several

days.

Still, recently soaring daily rates of infections and hospitalizations

has various experts predicting the daily death count could regularly

surpass 2,000 or 3,000, and perhaps approach 4,000.

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