Montgomery, Alabama hit hard by Covid19 after being open for the last 10 days.

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5. One of the reasons this has happened

Anyone who has ever been through Alabama's Black Belt knows the rural area is plainly built on the vestiges of plantation culture. It is poverty-wracked, with Americans living in conditions that UN veterans have described as being close to Third World conditions. Health care over the last 10 years has evaporated throughout the region with hospitals closing.

That means COVID-19 patients throughout the region are being sent to Montgomery and have now filled those facilities. If this continues, rural cases from just below the Black Belt's southern edge will have to be sent to Mobile next. That would mean patients from Clarke, Monroe, Conecuh, Escambia and Washington counties traveling to the Mobile Bay area, the state's hottest COVID-19 spot for the last month.