Posted on 07/30/2021 8:09:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Sarah Nafziger, M.D., vice president of UAB Hospital Clinical Services, said Thursday that Alabama now has the highest COVID positivity rate in the country.
Nafziger said the reasons are the Delta variant and Alabama’s low vaccination rate.
According to the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), Alabama’s percent positive rate is 21.5% as of July 29, 2021. The statewide percentage of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs) that were positive during the past seven days was 21.5. According to ADPH, 49,661 COVID-19 tests were performed in the past 7 days in Alabama.
The percent positive number is something state health leaders keep an eye on because it paints a picture of what’s happening with COVID-19. Assistant state health officer Dr. Karen Landers says that number must go down now for us to start getting a handle on the situation.
“That is really in my opinion an unsustainable number. We must intervene. We must really look individually how we can protect ourselves. We must really take advantage of the mitigation standards that I hope none of us would have to back to.” Dr. Landers with ADPH said.
This is how ADPH describes this data: “Laboratories are required by law to report both positive and negative COVID-19 test results to ADPH. To accurately calculate the percentage of positive test results, both numerator and denominator data are needed. Only nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) methods are included in this calculation. A NAAT is a type of viral diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. NAATs detect genetic material (nucleic acids) of the virus. The date is assigned by the collection date and represents the percent that were positive during the past seven days as of that date. Data are preliminary and subject to change.”
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.
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Guess where they are shuttling a great number of unvaccinated illegal immigrants to?. All the red states. And not a peep from the media about it. Everything has been planned to the dot ... this is all about shutting down and locking up people in their houses again for the 2022 midterm elections. Can you say mail in ballots again? Why do you think the US postal employees are not required to take the vaccine? This is the way they did the presidential election months and months before the actual day. The demonic evil effin rats are power-hungry and I’ll do everything in their power to keep all three branches at all costs. Even if they have to send in the woke military.
Pinging to the state list.
The reason we’re labeled number one is that we are open again and the overlords don’t like that.
In my area, I know both Auburn and Montgomery schools are requiring masks for all students, but where else are they demanding masks?
In high heat and humidity like we’re having now, I think masks might kill some kids...
Too funny!
Hey! That’s a good idea. I really don’t want outsiders moving here.
P-Marlowe wrote: “Jabbing everyone with a mysterious experimental substance just contributes to the problem. “It hasn’t solved anything.”
Strawman. Fewer than 50% have been ‘jabbed’ and BTW it’s not a mysterious substance. And, FWIW, the vaccines will be fully approved in September.
The whole bit about Fat Phil getting the NCAA to drop the hammer on Bama over our sponsors outbidding Tennessee's sponsors for Albert Means --- has a whole new meaning in the day of NIL.
If you stay inside, the ants don't bother you.
CASES,CASES,CASES, What I want to know is HOW many CASES vs how many in hospital and most importantly how many died and of those who died and or were hospitalized how many had pre existing conditions.
Why aren’t we getting this info? Just kidding, I know why.
Auburn doesn’t require masks except in the classroom. Quite often, people don’t wear masks in the classroom.
Baldwin County.
Baldwin County. Don’t even care that you might be a fed either...
314 deaths supposedly from covid the last 24 hours.
That is a very disturbing number, as long as it's not fabricated. Particularly with Alabama's average deaths per day being around 175 (for all causes).
Care to point me to where you got that number? Thanks
“In my area, I know both Auburn and Montgomery schools are requiring masks for all students, but where else are they demanding masks?”
Baldwin County.
Reportedly only 9% of African-Americans have been vaccinated.
Alabama demographics include a high percentage of African-Americans.
Alabama has a high rate of Covid cases.
It’s not a complex mystery.
Yep.
Hate to disappoint, but read this:
https://www.wsfa.com/2021/07/30/auburn-city-schools-require-masks-start-school-year/
Of course, you could be referring to AU, while I was referring to K-12...
That is our conflict. I was referring to THE University in Alabama, Auburn. I didn’t consider city schools.
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