The United States should brace itself for “surge upon surge” of COVID cases, the nation's top public health expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci has said, after millions of people traveled during Thanksgiving and records were shattered across the nation, The Daily Mail reported.

On Saturday night, the Covid Tracking Project reported 211,000 cases, and 2,445 deaths.

There are 101,190 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US.

New data suggests that a smaller percentage of patients with COVID-19 are being admitted to hospitals because the nation's healthcare systems are being overwhelmed by the staggering number of new infections.

Hospitals are being forced to tighten their restrictions on who is admitted, suggesting that some patients who may have been hospitalized for treatment during the spring and summer wave are now being turned away as deaths from the virus also increase.