The state just experienced its second-highest ever day of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on May 21 as the state continues to gradually reopen.
At a Thursday press conference, Steven Reed, the mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, said his city's hospitals have run out of beds in their Intensive Care Units, where coronavirus patients are normally treated."Many people in Montgomery hospitals are not from Montgomery," Reed said."They're suffering because they don't have the rural health care system in place that they need.
Reed's comments come just as the state experienced its second-highest ever day of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on May 21."A third of the state's total overall cases have occurred just in the last two weeks," according to WBHM reporter Janae Pierre. Also this week, two of the state's largest high schools held graduation ceremonies at a baseball stadium.
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