As the BA.5 COVID-19 variant sweeps across the Southeast, more and more Alabamians are being infected.
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While he explained vaccinations and prior infections do not prevent people from being infected with BA.5, they do reduce the odds of being hospitalized. A recent challenge for some hospitals has been staffing. Williamson explained less health care professionals are working now than during the omicron and delta spikes.
“So what hospitals are trying to do now is, to the extent that they can, they’ve hired some of that staff,” he said.
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