COVID region seeing highest hospitalizations in nearly 10 months

The region includes Colorado, Montana, the Dakotas, Utah and Wyoming.

The United States has been facing a COVID-19 surge as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread. More than 720,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.