Alabama has highest COVID case positivity rate in the U.S.
Nafziger said people are starting to fill up hospitals again and 97 percent of the people who are being treated for COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
The average age of admitted COVID-19 patients is about 55 years old. She said the difference is Alabama s older population, 65 and older, took the vaccine. That is keeping them out of the hospital.
Nafziger said almost every one of the patients in the hospital who did not get the vaccine, now said they wish they had.
Nafziger said if case numbers continue to grow, UAB doctors will have to cancel or postpone elective procedures because they will need the beds.
To me it s like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. We have a parachute, why would you jump out of an airplane without a parachute? Asked Nafziger.
via www.wsfa.com