Alabama Has No More ICU Beds Amid Rising COVID Cases, Low Vaccination Rates

A doctor in Louisiana sees COVID-19 patients.Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Alabama has run out of intensive care unit (ICU) beds amid a surge ofCOVID-19patients as the Delta variant rages throughout the state. The Alabama Hospital Association told theNew York Timeson Wednesday that the state has “negative 29” ICU beds with more than two dozen people on emergency room waitlists. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, toldCNN, “Unfortunately, that means several bad things.

Alabama Health Official Says 'There Is No Room to Put These Bodies' as COVID Deaths Rise

Workers move a body.Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty ImagesAlabama is running out of space to hold deceased bodies as COVID-19 infections soar to thehighest levels of the entire pandemic, a state health official said.With cases topping 4,000 a day in the last month, more than even the winter surge before vaccines were readily available, Alabama had to activate two of their four refrigerated trailers to hold bodies for the first time since the start of the pandemic, state health officer Dr.

Alabama High School Band Director Tased and Arrested After Allegedly Refusing to Stop Performance

Johnny Mims.Photo:youtube youtube A band director in Alabama was arrested after allegedly refusing to stop a performance. Minor High School band director Johnny Mims allegedly did not comply with “multiple officers' request” and instead “instructed his band to continue performing,” police said. The department said that after multiple officers attempted to stop the performance, a “physical altercation ensued between the band director, Birmingham City Schools System Security personnel, and BPD officers.

Alabama High School Removing Bathroom Stall Doors in Attempt to Stop Kids from Vaping

Photo: Getty An Alabama high school is removing the doors on some of their bathroom stalls in an effort tostop students from vaping. Horton told the news station that removing the stall doors was the best solution he could think of to reduce student vaping, however it may be a temporary change if the school can come up with a better plan. “I don’t like it,” she said. “They take their only private place in the school that they can do their business.

Alabama Inmate Casey White, Who Escaped Prison With Jailer's Help, Gets Life Sentence

Casey White.Photo:Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP Casey White, the Alabama prisonerwho escaped jail last yearwith the help of a correction officer, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday.ABC Newsreported the 39-year-old prisoner told the Lauderdale County courtroom that he didn’t want Vicky White — the corrections officer who helped him escape and later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as police were closing in on them — to be dragged “through the dirt.