Alabama is seeing its highest number of Covid hospitalizations since February as its Republican governor blames the unvaccinated for the exploding number of Delta variant infections.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – With sagging vaccination rates, the state is seeing its highest number of Covid hospitalizations since February as its Republican governor blames the unvaccinated for the exploding number of Delta variant infections.
On Monday, intensive care unit nurse Barbara Thornton learned that one of the hospital’s Covid patients – a pregnant woman in her 20s – had died. "It's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks,” Gov. Kay Ivey said last week. “It's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down."
Ricky Hamm was a medevac helicopter pilot who tested positive for Covid three days after getting a vaccine before it fully took effect. He’d spend 187 at UAB Hospital – 147 of them on ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It’s a device that removes a patient’s blood, filters out carbon dioxide and adds oxygen. Essentially, it acts as a patient’s heart and lungs and is used on seriously ill Covid patients.“I’m more thankful than I can explain,” he said in an interview.
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