The United States set another daily coronavirus world record Wednesday with nearly 4,000 deaths from COVID-19. U.S. hospitalizations hit a new record high, topping 132,000. More than a quarter-million new infections were confirmed Wednesday alone. California’s total cases have topped 2.5 million, with hospitals reporting critical shortages of oxygen, ICU beds, and medical workers to tend to 23,000 patients.

In New York, three more incarcerated people died of COVID-19 Wednesday, adding to a record surge in prisoner deaths. In other news from New York, the largest health system in the state, Northwell, announced Tuesday it would rescind some 2,500 medical debt lawsuits it filed during the pandemic and would stop suing patients, after The New York Times reported on the lawsuits. The Times was reporting on an exposé done by the Community Service Society.