Multiple southern states are grappling with a shortage of ICU beds and hospital capacity as COVID-19 cases continue to spike across the U.S. The country is seeing the coronavirus storming back, driven ...

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Alabama is one Southern state where there is a real shortage of ICU beds for people of all ages. We're going to check in now with Dr. David Kimberlin. He's a pediatric infectious disease doctor at the ...

There were 1,568 ICU patients in Alabama on Tuesday, which has only 1,557 ICU beds in the state. Some patients are "on gurneys, receiving ICU care in the hallway," Dr. Don Williamson told WSFA.

Alabama’s current COVID-19 wavelet, fueled by the highly contagious BA.4 and BA.5 variants, may be showing signs of slowing down. And federal hospital data shows that illness during this mini wave was ...

Now let's hear from another voice grappling with this surge in Alabama. Reverend Moneka Thompson is a staff chaplain at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. Reverend, welcome. MONEKA THOMPSON: Thank you.

The state of Alabama says it has surpassed its net total for available ICU beds as the more contagious delta variant strain of COVID-19 continues to spread. The Alabama Department of Public Health and ...

Opelika-based East Alabama Health is adding three floors and 30 critical care beds to the west pavilion of its Opelika-based East Alabama Medical Center in a $32.5 million expansion project. “This ...

Aug. 6—Nearly all of the intensive care beds in Alabama hospitals — 93 percent of them — are filled as COVID-19 again surges across the state, according to numbers released Friday by state health ...