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Alabama runs out of hospital beds and in Mississippi 20,000 students go into quarantine

2021-08-20T02:14:16.534Z


In the southern states of the country, the coronavirus is causing the worst damage. In the first week of school in Mississippi, more than 4,000 students and nearly 1,000 teachers fell ill. In Alabama, they have more sick people than beds in intensive care units.


In some southern states of the United States, the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is here or remains to be seen.

In Mississippi, at least 20,000 students, or 5% of the state's public school student population, are in quarantine a week after classes begin.

In that period, August

9-13

,

4,521 students and 948 teachers tested positive for COVID-19.

With just over 35% of the population fully vaccinated, this Thursday, only seven beds were available in intensive care units in Mississippi for 96 critically ill patients, our sister network NBC News reported.

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A 13-year-old girl, an eighth-grade student at Raleigh High School, died on August 14

,

a day after being hospitalized for being infected with the virus.

“She wanted to attend Harvard.

She was very smart, very loving, very kind.

It's devastating for us, ”his aunt, Megan Reed, told NBC News.

Until August 18, according to data from the State Department of Health, 401,201 cases and 7,937 deaths had been reported since the pandemic began.

Faced with a burdened hospital system, facing a shortage of medical personnel, Mississippi authorities announced that off-duty certified emergency technicians and paramedics would be allowed to help patients in hospitals.

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"We are not yet anywhere near the staff we need,"

said Jim Craig of the Mississippi Department of Health, The Associated Press news agency reported.

In 73 centers, more than 1,451 people are urgent to meet the incessant demand.

Local health officials have described this stage as "the worst part of the pandemic," with the highest per capita rate of new COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

Nearly 5% of the children, or about 20,000 students, in Mississippi public schools are currently in quarantine due to the coronavirus outbreaks.Matt Williamson / The Enterprise-Journal via AP

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves reacted to the situation by downplaying how the virus was affecting children and youth. 

"It's very rare for children under 12 to have more than just a cold," he

said

Like other Republican governors in states like Florida and Texas, he has opposed the mandatory mandate to wear masks and threatened those who want to impose them.

The situation in Alabama is critical

There are more sick people in Alabama than beds to care for them, health authorities there said. 

The state went into a negative balance as of Wednesday, August 18, said Don Williamson, president of the Alabama Hospital Association.

Linda Busby, 74, while waiting to receive her dose of Johnson & Johnson in April 2021. Mississippi has one of the lowest rates of vaccinated people in the United States (AP Photo / Rogelio V. Solis) AP / AP

"Today, only 12% of the patients who are in the hospital are fully vaccinated,

so, as you have heard, this could have been avoided if we had increased the vaccination figures," said Williamson in statements collected by the local network WBRC6 .

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Since the start of the pandemic, this state has added 645,851 confirmed cases and 11,872 deaths, calculates the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

More than 4,465 are new cases.

Only 36% of the Alabama population is fully vaccinated

.

“Almost 100% of the new hospitalizations are of unvaccinated people. And they are the ones who are dying.

These people are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain

, "said Gov. Kay Ivey in July, The Washington Post reported.

Source: telemundo

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