Alabama is grappling with surging deaths asThe state reported record numbers of new cases and hospitalizations following the holidays. At one point last week, only 39 ICU beds were available statewide.by The COVID Tracking Project.
The state's seven-day average for new daily COVID-19 cases was 2,666 as of Wednesday, officials said. As case numbers and hospitalizations have recently started to decline, ICU capacity and ventilator use hasn't improved at the same rate, Dr. Donald Williamson, president of the Alabama Hospital Association, told ABC News.
Williamson believes an"aggressive" use of monoclonal antibodies has helped decrease the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the state. Though availability of the treatment -- meant for high-risk, non-hospitalized patients with mild to moderate symptoms -- can be limited. HospitalsBoothe told ABC News it could take up to 12 days for her patients to get scheduled for the treatment. By then, they may already be hospitalized and no longer eligible.
If all these states that resisted a mask mandate earlier had implemented one in the very beginning, how many Americans would still be alive? Who should have championed masks from the get-go?
I thought the Chinese virus was gone now that Biden is here.
Glad everybody went outside with no masks in Tuscaloosa to celebrate the national title.
Where is the help from Biden?
horrible
And local health agents trying to use student’s out-of-state HOME addresses to underreport college data.
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