Alabama hospitals seeing "unprecedented" wave of COVID patients
Alabama hospitals are seeing an “unprecedented” number of COVID-19 patients, an infectious disease expert at UAB said Tuesday, when the state set yet another COVID-19 hospitalization record and saw more new cases in a single day than ever before.
“What we’re really concerned about right now is what is going to happen in the week, especially the second week, after Christmas,” Dr. Michael Saag, an infectious disease expert and a professor and associate dean at UAB’s School of Medicine, told reporters on Tuesday. “And if we all collectively have the same type of exposures that we did over Thanksgiving, we can expect a doubling of the cases that we have now.”
UAB Hospital has been adjusting intensive care bed capacity to care for the rush of COVID-19 patients by taking over other areas of the hospital, Saag explained.
“So far we’ve been adept at doing that, but it’s just common sense. At some point, if cases keep coming to us in increasing numbers, to the point where it becomes more difficult to flex, all of us could become more strained and stressed in terms of providing the care,” Saag said, adding that some other hospitals may not have that same ability to adjust any longer.
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(Alabama Political Reporter)
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