On December 1st, at roughly 4:45 p.m. Central time, 86 year old Cove in 19 patient Florence Bolton was blanketed by the loving tones of her grandchildren, her ventilator temporarily removed by a nurse in an effort to help her see the faces of her family members perched on an iPad screen above.

美國中部時間12月1日下午4點45分左右，86歲的Cove in 19患者Florence Bolton被孫子們的愛音籠罩著，她的呼吸機被護士暫時取下，以幫助她看到上方iPad螢幕上棲息的家人的臉。

Less than 24 hours later, Bolton was pronounced dead.

不到24小時後，博爾頓被宣佈死亡。

Tragically, Bolton is now one of more than 400,000 Americans to have died from co vid 19.

不幸的是，博爾頓現在是40多萬美國人中的一個，死於co vid 19。

Ah, heartbreaking and once unimaginable milestone crossed in the U.

啊，令人心碎，曾經難以想象的里程碑在美國跨越。

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On Tuesday, and yet the situation will still get worse, with another 100,000 deaths expected by mid February, said incoming head of the Centers for Disease Control, Rochelle Walensky on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday.

週二，然而情況仍然會變得更糟，預計到2月中旬又會有10萬人死亡，疾病控制中心的新任負責人羅謝爾-瓦倫斯基週日在哥倫比亞廣播公司的《面對國家》節目中表示。

And we still yet haven't seen the ramifications of what happened from the holiday travel from holiday gathering in terms of high rates of hospitalizations and the deaths thereafter.

而我們至今還沒有看到從節日聚會旅遊中發生的高住院率和此後的死亡事件所帶來的後果。

So, yes, I think we still have some dark weeks ahead.

所以，是的，我認為我們未來還有一些黑暗的星期。

At Providence ST Mary Medical Center in rural Apple Valley, California, where Cove in 19 patients lined the hallways due to a lack of I.

在加州蘋果谷農村的普羅維登斯ST瑪麗醫療中心，由於缺乏I，19名患者中的Cove在走廊上排隊。

C.

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U Beds.

U型床。

Executive director of Acute Care Mendy Hickey offered a stark, emphatic reminder.

急症護理部執行主任Mendy Hickey提出了一個鮮明的、強調性的提醒。

It's not just the elderly who are dying.

死的不僅僅是老人。

There are a lot of young people.

有很多年輕人。

We had a 28 year old.

我們有一個28歲的。

We had a 36 year old.

我們有一個36歲的。

We had a 34 year old that you have to walk their family in here to see them for the last time, and they have young kids.

我們有一個34歲的老人，你必須走他們的家人在這裡看到他們的最後一次，他們有年輕的孩子。

It's such an awful thing.

這真是一件可怕的事情。

Um, and I just think, Gosh, if we had just been a little bit more careful, we could have spared that person's life.

嗯，我只是想，天哪，如果我們只是一直一點點 更加小心，我們可以有 倖免於那個人的生命。

Hickey added that the political climate exacerbates her frustration and desperation in trying to keep people healthy.

Hickey補充說，政治氣候加劇了她在試圖保持人們健康方面的挫折和絕望。

It really gets to me when people say it's political, um, or that it's a fake disease or that you know, the Democrats, this sort of the Republicans that because I guarantee that the patients in these beds and the family members that are watching there loved ones die, could care less what political party they belong with.

它真的得到了我，當人們說它的政治，嗯，或它是一個假的疾病，或你知道，民主黨，這種共和黨人，因為我保證，在這些床上的病人和家庭成員，看著有親人死亡，可以關心少什麼政黨，他們屬於。

I wish people would just take it seriously and believe us.

我希望大家能認真對待，相信我們。

While some health officials have expressed concerns about um or contagious variant of the virus spreading across the country.

雖然一些衛生官員對嗯或傳染性病毒變種在全國範圍內傳播表示擔憂。

There are glimmers of hope amid the despair, like in California, a surging hotspots since November.

絕望中也有希望的曙光，比如加州，11月以來的熱點湧動。

But where last week's hospitalization numbers began to decline, prompting California's Health and Human Services secretary to say quote, It's the biggest signal to me that things are beginning to flatten and potentially improve.

但上週住院人數開始下降的地方，促使加州衛生和公共服務部部長說報價，這是對我來說最大的信號，事情開始趨於平穩，並有可能改善。