Alabama has been dealing with an uptick in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations for much of the last two months as the highly contagious BA.5 subvariant of omicron spreads rapidly.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A new variant of omicron continues to fuel a summer wave of COVID-19 in Alabama and across the United States.
But the current numbers remain far below the peak seen amid previous surges, like in January of this year when nearly 3,000 Alabamians were hospitalized with the virus. As of July 20, Alabama hospitals are treating 661 COVID-19 patients according to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health. Over the last month, Alabama has averaged about 2,000 new cases per day — daily averages we haven’t seen since the state’s major surges. Also, with more people testing at home, it’s hard to know just how high the state’s test positivity rate really is.“Even though numbers are a lot higher with infections, the number of deaths are not dramatically increased,” Thrasher said
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