Alabama sees record-high COVID hospitalizations, record-low ICU bed availability

[TomCADem]

Source: APR

Alabama on Monday saw a record number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the fewest available intensive care beds since the pandemic began and the most ever coronavirus patients in those ICU beds.

Alabama had just 12 percent of the state’s ICU beds available on Monday, and 496 of them were filled with COVID-19 patients, a record high, said Don Williamson, president of the Alabama Hospital Association and former state health officer, speaking to APR by phone Monday.

“This is the make-or-break week,” Williamson said. If new daily cases don’t start decreasing, hospitalizations will continue to rise and at some point, the state will run out of ICU beds, he said.

“Everybody’s tired. Everybody’s desperate to see some sort of off-ramp, and right now none of us are seeing the off-ramp,” Williamson said.

Read more: https://www.alreporter.com/2020/07/28/alabama-sees-record-high-covid-hospitalizations-record-low-icu-bed-availability/

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. I feel so badly for our health care workers here

the stupid is strong here in 'Bama.

I don't step out of my home without mask and gloves. We order all our food from the grocery store and have it delivered, then wipe it down when it comes in the house. We are doing all we can.

[ananda]

3. Texas too.

I keep wondering how long this can go on,
and yet it does ....

[warmfeet]

2. Yet another follow tRump and die state.

If someone wants help, I will help them.

If someone screams in my face, angrily, about being forced to wear a mask due to government over reach - fuck them. I will let them die, I will wish it upon them in fact. They want to die for their idiotic beliefs, I will do everything in my power to help them.

[groundloop]

4. Believe it or not Alabama's governor Kay Ivey is far from the worst governor in the country

She has actually implemented a statewide mask order. Next door, Georgia's idiot governor Brian Kemp refuses to.

And she was a Democrat in the 1980s.

Sadly we have a lot of trumpers here who will blindly follow his lead no matter what. That tRump refused to endorse masks until just recently had a huge impact on public opinion here. On the rare occasion when I have to go out I'm finally seeing the majority of people wearing masks.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Yeah, she is far from the worst

but she is still an ass kissing trumper.