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A Southeast Health health worker administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a man during a drive-thru vaccination at Southeast Health in March.
JAY HARE, DOTHAN EAGLE
The risk of transmission is considered very high for some local counties as the Delta variant continues to be of concern to state health officials.
Coffee, Dale, Henry and Houston counties were all on the very high risk list in Thursday’s update of the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) COVID-19 online dashboard. The state risk indicator placed Pike County in the high risk category, with Barbour, Covington and Geneva counties listed as low risk.
Wiregrass counties listed as “very high risk” have not seen a decrease in the number of new cases in the past 14 days; and for Coffee and Dale counties, the percentage of positive cases also does not decrease and is above 10%. Although at “high risk,” Pike County’s cases have been on the decline for one to six days, raising it to high risk from the very high risk rating it previously had.
Statewide, there have been 552,911 confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 11,387 confirmed and probable deaths. In the past 14 days, 2,573 new cases have been reported. Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are also on the rise again and the state’s percentage of positive cases has risen and is the highest since May, according to ADHD.
Locally, Southeast Health currently has 22 hospital patients with COVID-19.
The Alabama Hospital Association recently released a report that showed more than 90 percent of COVID-19 hospital patients in the state are unvaccinated.
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