Decatur-Morgan Hospital hits coronavirus high

Right now - decatur-morgan hospital is caring for almost 100 coronavirus inpatients!

That's an all-time high!

This comes as hospital officials are worried about another spike around the corner - following christmas and new years gatherings.

Alabama department of health representative - judy smith - explained that she's not sure how much more area hospitals can take.

The decatur-morgan hospital president is asking that you stay home and seperated this new years eve.

21:61 or -5:57 "i'm anticipating some really bad things to come in the next week to two weeks from christmas this is our highest number, 96" mayor tab bowling explained that testing centers in morgan county are seeing an almost 55- percent test positivity rate.

That's another all time high.

Here's some more info we learned about covid at decatur morgan hospital.

Staff are currently caring for a record 96 positive inpatients - with an additional 7 under investigation.

81 employees have tested positive.

92 are under self-quarantine.

The number of covid patients on ventilators is down - but that's only because so many who were on ventilators have died.

And as we mentioned - the test positivity rate in morgan county is up to nearly 55 percent.