is the Alabama health department not telling the truth about 2 icu beds remaining? If they are telling the truth, why is that not a big deal?

this is not an attack, this is not negative, just trying to understand your rationale

Were all done with the fear mongering.

A friend works for the Health Department in my state. 75% of the hospitalized Covid patients here are vaccinated.

When are we going to admit that the vaccine has failed?

There. I said it.

The vaccine hasn’t failed. It has dramatically decreased the lethality of COVID among the vaccinated - reducing it nearly as much as having had the illness itself and recovering from it, with far less mortality for high risk groups. That’s what influenza immunizations do. It provides a relatively safe (but not absolutely safe) way to transition from immunologically naive to immunologically experienced.

IT WAS NEVER GOING TO DO ANYTHING BETTER THAN THAT. Those who told you it would either knowingly lied to you or were abysmally ignorant themselves.

While we are on the subject, the delta variant was NOT caused by people selfishly not getting immunized. It came from India where about a billion and a quarter people have been UNABLE to get immunized.

This is not EVER going to completely go away, we are going to have to live with it, like we do influenza, Epstein-Barr virus, Merkel Cell Polyoma Virus, the other four commonly circulating human coronaviruses, etc.

PS: You also aren’t going to live forever regardless of how many diseases you do or do not get.

I love how Sarah Nelson says the AFA is in full support of extending the mask mandate,meanwhile her members are being verbally and in some cases physically assaulted daily over the whole mask policing FAs are required to do.


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Alabama’s health issues are a result of vaccine hesitancy.

The topic was Texas governor testing positive for Covid-19. No, that’s not a big deal and shouldn’t even be news since he’s vaccinated. Positivity rates and cases shouldn’t even be news anymore with current vaccination rates.

Probably also more due to overall health as well. It was well documented early on that COVID was really bad for those who are obese.

Alabama is usually top 5 in nationwide obesity.

Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/pre...s.html#overall

for perspective, Alabama has a population of 4.9 million people and currently 1560 people in need of an ICU bed and 1562 ICU beds. So the state has two “net” beds available.

Note - the term “net” is used because, for instance, one hospital may have a net negative of ICU beds because it had to move ICU patients to another area of the hospital while a hospital in another part of the state may have more available ICU beds.

also note: As of Monday, 2,634 patients were being treated for COVID-19 in Alabama hospitals, including 40 pediatric patients, the association said.

That figure is near the peak of 3,084 COVID-19 hospitalizations during January’s coronavirus surge. according to state Department of Public Health data.