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.
Scott Harris, who serves as Alabama’s state health officer, said he is “extremely concerned†about the rise in cases.
Don Williamson, the former state health officer who now heads the Alabama Hospital Association, said the concern is not the number itself, but the steep upward trajectory in numbers.
Mike Saag, a professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Division of Infectious Diseases, said Monday.
Like the surge in the number of virus patients in hospitals, other barometers of the pandemic are seeing a similar rise.Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at UAB, said the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals jumped by several hundred over just one week.