By Marie Rosenthal
In mid-June, the 1,100-bed UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., had three active COVID-19 cases. Today, the staff is caring for more than 60 patients with COVID-19, according to Ricardo Franco, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
“About 89% of our COVID-19 samples sequenced at the UAB lab are the delta variant, and unvaccinated people account for 97% of COVID hospitalizations at UAB,” Dr. Franco said at a press briefing