HUNTSVILLE, Ala.– Monday’s Huntsville area COVID-19 briefing reported 266 people in Madison County are presently under quarantine for COVID-19 and Madison County is adding about 20 to 25 individuals a day to that list.
Huntsville Hospital CEO David Spillers stated hospitalizations have increased across North Alabama in the past 2 weeks.
” The last time I reported in our system healthcare facilities across Alabama, we had about 30 inpatients, today we have actually got 70 inpatients in our health centers across North Alabama,” he said. So we’ve seen a fairly substantial increase in the variety of people who have COVID, who require health center care.”
Statewide, Alabama now reports there have been more than 30,000 COVID-19 cases considering that March.
Overall, 2,400 of those cases have led to hospitalizations and 831 people have died from the virus.
Spillers stated Decatur Morgan County Healthcare Facility had 23 inpatients, including 16 in the extensive care unit Marshall County had 16, including 12 in the Marshall South and 4 in Marshall Norther Helen Keller Health Center in Tuscumbia had 7 inpatients.
” Madison County with 23 overall, 16 in Huntsville, 7 in Madison, Crestwood reported this morning they have zero in patients,” Spillers stated. “7 of those 23 remain in the ICU, six of those seven are on ventilators.”
Statewide, about 2 in 10 COVID-19 cases result in a hospitalization. Spillers stated today, the mortality rate for a COVID-19 patient– who goes into the hospital– is about 12 percent.
Spillers also offered some profile data on the