A field hospital that was opened in Milwaukee to accommodate the surge in Covid-19 patients in Wisconsin.Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus in the United States has risen 40 percent in the past month, while the number of new cases reported on Thursday approached the record of nearly 76,000 set in July. Some 41,000 people are now hospitalized across the country , including many in the Midwest and the Mountain West. While the nation has seen more people hospitalized at earlier points in the pandemic — during an onslaught of cases in New York City in April and in the Sun Belt in July — patients are now spread out much more broadly , raising concern for critically ill patients in rural areas with limited medical resources. According to the Times database , six states — Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, […]