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Alabama has the lowest percentage of people in the nation that are fully vaccinated at 36%, according to a USA TODAY analysis. Only four states — Idaho, Wyoming, Mississippi and West Virginia — have a lower percentage of people that have received at least one dose of the vaccine, as Alabama is at 48%.
On the other hand, Alabama reported no new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, two days after 3,890 new cases were reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to the state’s public health department, there’s been over 21,000 positive cases in the past week and nearly every county, including Cullman, is labeled as high transmission. It was also reported last week the state had no more ICU beds available.
Gov. Kay Ivey, who said in July it was, “time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks,” for the state’s increasing positive cases rate. The city of Cullman declared a State of Local Emergency on Thursday in addition to a local hospital requesting the city provide emergency services for the Trump rally, as overcrowding made it difficult for the hospital to do so.
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