Federal team sent to Alabama Gulf coast hospital 'crushed' with COVID patients

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is sending a task force team to help at South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley. Similar help had been sent to help in Louisiana and Mississippi. Alabama is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases that medical officials say is being fueled by low vaccination rates and the highly contagious delta variant. A federal team of health care workers has been deployed to a coastal Alabama hospital that is being 'crushed' with a surge of COVID-19 patients. UAB Hospital is predicting that Alabama healthcare facilities could see five thousand coronavirus patients as soon as next month.