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Montgomery: The state health officer said Friday that he is cautiously optimistic about improving COVID-19 numbers but urged people to maintain precautions such as wearing masks and avoiding crowds. “This is the most optimistic we’ve been, I think, maybe since this all began,” Dr. Scott Harris said. Three major barometers of the pandemic’s severity – hospitalizations, daily new cases and coronavirus test percent positivity – have fallen to levels the state last saw in fall or summer. “We are not out of the woods, but we see how to get out of the woods. Please don’t stop doing the things that you are doing. This is not the time to ease up wearing your mask. It’s not the time to go be in large groups of people,” Harris said. The number of COVID-19 patients in Alabama hospitals Friday dipped below 1,000 for the f
Maintenance workers keep hospital afloat by the bucket
Maintenance workers keep hospital afloat by the bucket
By CALEB MCCLUSKEY, Enterprise-Journal
MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) Neither rain, snow nor waterless pipes could prevent Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center from helping patients in need, as employees carried buckets of water drawn from a well throughout the hospital to clean and sanitize during McComb’s water crisis this week.
The hospital’s clinics closed ahead of the winter weather and remained closed when the water shortage hit.
“Water is for sure vital to the operation of the hospital,” hospital CEO?Charla Rowley said, noting that cleaning and sanitation is impossible without it, and that many operations in the hospital could not function either.
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