Hospitals across the nation face an even bigger capacity problem from the resurgent spread of Covid-19 than they did during the virus’s earlier surges this year, pandemic preparedness experts said, as the number of U.S. hospitalizations reached a new high.

The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients Tuesday reached 61,964, according to the Covid Tracking Project, passing the prior record of nearly 60,000 in April as the virus surged in the northeast. Hospitalizations hit a nearly identical peak again in late July, as the…

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