MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Will Boyd was at the funeral Saturday morning for a relative who had died after contracting the new coronavirus when he got the call with the news.
His brother had also passed away from COVID-19.“The virus is real. It’s real. If they don’t know it’s real, they can come and walk with me to the cemetery,” Boyd said of the skeptics.Alabama and much of the Deep South are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases as some have stopped heeding warnings of the virus, alarming public health officials and people who have lost loved ones because of COVID-19.
Over the past two weeks, Alabama had the second highest number of new cases per capita in the nation. South Carolina was fourth.