https://www.wired.com/story/why-some-states-resisting-social-distancing-measures/ > Alabama hospitals were nearing capacity when Governor Kay Ivey spoke with reporters on Thursday. Despite a dearth of tests, there were more than 630 confirmed Covid-19 cases in the state, more than 100 of whom were hospitalized, and dozens of patients on ventilators. Local reports suggested that the actual number of those hospitalized with the virus might have been closer to 300, but many patients suffering from acute respiratory illnesses went uncounted. > At that time, more than half of all Americans were living under state-issued shelter-in-place orders in an attempt to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Ivey had not issued such an order. And she had no plans to, she said on a press call.