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HEREâS WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
MONTGOMERY, Alabama â The number of COVID-19 patients in Alabama hospitals has climbed to more than 900 â a number the state has not seen since February.
The Alabama Hospital Association says there were 947 COVID-19 patients in state hospitals Monday, up from 204 at the beginning of July. The latest number is about a third of where the state was at the peak of the pandemic when there were 3,000 virus patients in state hospitals in January.
The head of the hospital association says the concern is not the number itself, but the steep upward trajectory in numbers. Dr. Don Williamson says the state has the solution in the form of the vaccine, but âthere is not a long line of people wanting to be vaccinated.â