Intensive Care Cases Rise As Coronavirus Infections Jump

ESSEN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 21: A nurse puts on her PPE before tending to a Covid-19 patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the Universitaetsklinikum Essen university hospital during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic on October 21, 2020 in Essen, Germany. Nationwide the number of Covid patients being treated in intensive care units has been rising steadily in October, at 879 as of yesterday, with approximately half of those patients on respirators. Germany last week recorded a new daily high of over 7,000 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)