Pa. reports 11,000 new cases of COVID-19 in one day, and asks public to help protect hospitals from filling

More than 50,000 Pennsylvanians have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the last week. More than 5,000 people were being treated for the coronavirus in Pennsylvania hospitals Thursday.

Pedestrians outside an entrance to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer

by Justine McDaniel and Erin McCarthy

Updated Dec. 3, 2020, 8:42 p.m. ET

Published Dec. 3, 2020, 6:56 p.m. ET