New New News of the Weird

Most of the news cycle is dominated by Covid and atlanta flooding. There are news reports on estimated cost, estimated deaths, demands to start taking action, rescue operation attempts, talk of looting, etc.

Warnings:
Local authorities across southern states are warning people to not take in people fleeing from Atlanta, and that they may be very sick. Even if it is a family member. Before doing so they need to be checked out at a hospital.

Some localities are telling people to stay out of their towns.

News is also reporting a record number of assaults across southern states.

Viral Video/News Report
There is a viral video from a security camera at a gas station that shows a person in a very loose fitting outfit that seems to be an amalgamation of scrubs and some sort of oversized white jacket holding what appears to be a sword, run into and crash through the glass of the sliding door at the gas station.
They seem to stagger, get up, look confused and then run off across the parking lot towards the gas pumps.
According to the news a yet to be identified patient escaped the Broughton Hospital in Morganton and attacked several orderlies. Police are conducting a manhunt and have a tip hotline setup.

Is that the hospital with “the patient?”

yes it is.
though the video quality is grainy, this would not seem to match the description of "the patient" though.

Oh Forgot another Video/News Thing
Three people were arrested in connection of beating a homeless man.
The only problem is authorities are unable to find the homeless man.
Video of the incident was shot by a shop owner closing up his store. In the video three young men approach a man sleeping in a doorway and seem to harass him for a moment before hitting him repeatedly with bats. There is brief moment where it is difficult to tell what exactly happens, but as a particularly hard blow is coming down the man seems to collapse into a heap before it hits...or vanishes. Some are claiming the video is a fake.
The witness called 911 but there was nobody there by the time emergency services arrived, and the witness stayed across the street and never saw anyone leave.
The men were tracked down and arrested and two confessed to the assault taking place.

Though it is possible to be mistaken the homeless man appears suspiciously similar to the homeless guy hired by Polk to drive him, who was also the guy that would chase off street preachers in Atlanta.