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Wait times for emergency hospitalizations continue to rise, with 1 in 20 Americans having to spend more than 24 hours in the emergency department before receiving a bed.
Wait times for emergency hospitalizations continue to rise, with 1 in 20 Americans having to spend more than 24 hours in the emergency department before receiving a bed.
Plenty of people will declare they can’t start their morning without a cup of coffee to wake them up—but what happens if you drink it when your brain should be unwinding in preparation for sleep?
In Newsweek’s visualization, below, one can see in dark red that the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma came top of the list with incidence rates, respectively, of around 234, 248, and 257 deaths per 100,000 total population.