The most affected is Alabama, where the number of hospitalizations is rapidly increasing. Authorities began storing the dead in mobile cells.
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“They are only intended for emergencies in which a large number of people die. That’s the situation Alabama is in now, “said Scott Harris, a health care representative. According to him, the state has so far put into operation two of its four mobile cells equipped with a freezing device.
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Alabama has been reporting double-digit deaths for a few weeks, up from 50 on Thursday. Harris said the authorities had no idea where the children became infected. According to Harris, there are more children in the state among the hospitalized.
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Louisiana is now in a difficult situation, with Hurricane Ida approaching. Gov. John Bel Edwards said on Saturday that there were 2,450 patients in the covid-19 in the local hospitals and that the hospitals would not be evacuated before the storm. Of the patients, 475 are on ventilators, and Edwards said supplies are being weighed into hospitals and checking the condition of generators to generate electricity. Several additional hospitals were provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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Hospitals in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana are starting to run out of oxygen for patients with covid-19, CNN said. The spread of the virus is accelerating in all US states as children return to school.
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Only in half of the American states and in Washington is half of the citizens fully immunized, in the group of 12 and 17 years the vaccination rate is 32 percent. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pushing for vaccinations of children and adolescents as education resumes. In the United States, more than 39 million people have been infected with coronavirus since the epidemic began, and more than 654,000 people have died from the infection.
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