Don Williamson, president of the Alabama Hospital Association.

Williamson said the rate new patients of all ages are coming in with COVID has him worried.

Alabama hospitals were treating 1,181 patients for the coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health.

Williamson also said the state’s hospitals are seeing younger patients coming in with COVID.

He said he uses discharge information to get data on the average age of the patients being treated for the virus.

He also said the average age of COVID patients discharged from Alabama hospitals has dropped from around 64-65 earlier in the pandemic down to 54 years old.

The AHA didn’t have hard data on the percent of hospitalized COVID patients that were unvaccinated, but Williamson said a survey performed around two weeks ago showed the vast majority - more than 90% - were unvaccinated?

Meanwhile, about 11% of Alabama hospital beds are currently available, and 12% of the state’s ICU beds are available, according to Williamson.