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Cases of coronavirus surged in Massachusetts, creating a new hot spot for the virus, as officials scramble to beef up hospital capacities for the influx of patients.

The state now has the third-highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country, with 38,077 positive cases— behind New York and New Jersey respectively.

“We’re right in the middle of the surge now,” the state’s Republican governor, Charlie Baker, said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

CORONAVIRUS-HIS MASSACHUSETTS NURSING HOME REPORTEDLY RECEIVES NOTE, ‘WE HOPE YOU DIE’

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose state has battled through the worst of the pandemic with overflowing hospitals, overcrowded morgues, and overwhelmed funeral parlors and gravesites to accommodate the massive death toll of 18,609 people, vowed to send 400 ventilators to support …continued .
[Source: Fox News]