While hospitalized patients who tested positive for coronavirus in the DCH Health System fell below 170 this week, knowledge shows a slight downward trend in the number of patients requiring treatment in Tuscaloosa.
But Monday night’s massive rally on the Strip to celebrate victory in the University of Alabama national championship as opposed to the state of Ohio can cause numbers to rise, city officials said.
At the moment, it’s too early to tell.
“Certainly,” the mayor of Tuscaloosa, Walt Maddox, “only time will tell. “
A total of 165 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were met in all 3 hospitals in the DCH Health System on Monday.
Of these, 44 required extensive treatment in the care unit, 20 of which required fans.
This is an increase of 40 in intensive care and 15 with fans a week ago, but an overall minimum of 175 hospitalized patients indexed in the DCH on January 4.
Early January may be similar to Christmas celebrations and celebrations, with a total of 133 cases reported to the DCH on December 22, adding 31 in intensive care and nine with insufficient ventilation.
But over the more than seven days, the number of new patients hospitalized with the local fitness formula has decreased from 27 new hospitalized patients recorded from January 6 to 19 documented on Monday.
This represents a total of 157 new patients hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms in the more than seven days, with coronavirus patients discharged.
But what’s left is whether the thousands and thousands of people who ended up on the Strip at the end of the national playoff football championship game will put more pressure on the local health care system, Maddox said.
He praised the efforts of the police, the University of Alabama and the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to respond to crowds who invaded the Strip for less than two hours on Monday night.
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According to a timeline presented through Maddox, the streets began to fill with scholars and revelers around 10:40 p. m.
At 11:30 p. m. local time, Tuscaloosa police chief Brent Blankley and police began using pepper spray in moderate amounts to begin dispersing the crowd as clashes and damage to property began to erupt and occur.
At 12:02 a. m. local time, University Boulevard in this domain of Tuscaloosa cleared, Maddox said.
“It was definitely a very complicated situation,” Maddox said, “but Array was proud of TPD and our law enforcement partners.
A total of 14 more people were arrested on 18 charges, but no effort was made by the authority to the crowd through force. To do so, the mayor said, it would take about 500 policemen with insurrection equipment who, given the scope of the celebration images in the national media, may have a bad symbol of the city.
“We don’t have the logistics for this
He highlighted the legal limits of the city to control such situations.
For example, in response to general questions about why bars or businesses were not closed in this component of the city, Maddox stated that the city could not do so legally. If individual businesses or alcoholic beverage licensees were regulated, this would apply to all of those licensees in the village.
If bars and restaurants had been attacked, some three hundred companies would have been forced to close, Maddox said.
Similarly, curfews or other traffic restrictions cannot be limited to a component component of the city. This would mean that the police would have to enforce those regulations in the city, which is anything that the limited personnel of the Tuscaloosa Police Decomposer – about 30% of the force is absent for reasons similar to COVID-19 or coronavirus, he said, cannot serve properly.
Ultimately, the responsibility, Maddox said, lies with those who have chosen to participate in such a giant gathering amid a global pandemic.
And possibly, or said, when I was old enough to attend college, I probably would have done the same.
“We were all between 18 and 22 years old,” Maddox said. “It’s simple to throw stones, but at the same time, I think we’ve all been there. “
Contact Jason Morton at jason. morton@tuscaloosanews. com.