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Is Alabama ready to ease COVID-19 restrictions? A look at the data

It’s been 39 days since Alabama confirmed its first cases of COVID-19 on March 13. Now, more than a month later, the number of people who have tested positive for the coronavirus is nearing 5,000. Tracking the coronavirus as it has spread in Alabama has been difficult. Testing has been limited. Data, at times, has … Continued
April 20, 2020

Alabama Public Health: At least 1,200 people have “recovered” from COVID-19

At least 1,200 people have “recovered” from infection with COVID-19, the Alabama Department of Public Health said Sunday in a statement to APR. “Recovered is a broad term used based upon persons who were no longer having symptoms at the time of interview and/or have completed quarantine,” said Dr. Karen Landers, the assistant state health … Continued
April 19, 2020

Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins dies after battle with COVID-19

Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins, from Lee County, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, has died. He was 86. “We are deeply saddened to notify you that after a courageous battle with COVID-19, Command Sergeant Major Bennie G. Adkins departed this life today, with beloved family at his bedside,” the Bennie Adkins … Continued
April 17, 2020

Coronavirus crisis begs for Alabama Medicaid expansion

Rep. Anthony Daniels is the minority leader in the House of Representatives, and Sen. Bobby Singleton is the minority leader in the Alabama Senate. As coronavirus continues to spread across Alabama, its unprecedented and devastating impacts are shedding a bright light on glaring gaps and discrepancies in our healthcare system. Here, as in other states … Continued
April 17, 2020

Committee recommends reopening some businesses amid COVID-19 pandemic

An Alabama Small Business Commission subcommittee on Friday recommended Gov. Kay Ivey immediately reopen numerous businesses, with special caveats, in a “phase one” of a larger plan to reinvigorate the state’s economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  Lt Gov. Will Ainsworth, who leads the commission, and Alabama Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, held a press conference Friday … Continued
April 17, 2020

Alabama appeals federal judge’s injunction against temporary abortion ban amid COVID-19

Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday appealed a federal judge’s partial block of the state’s temporary ban on abortions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  Marshall in a statement Thursday said his office is appealing to the 11th Circuit of Appeals and file an emergency stay of U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson’s April 12 preliminary injunction preventing … Continued
April 16, 2020

State prisons to began accepting county jail inmates, under conditions

The Alabama Department of Corrections on Thursday announced it would begin accepting inmates from county jails once the 30-day moratorium is over on the week of April 20, but will do so gradually, in limited numbers and won’t accept inmates who have COVID-19 symptoms.  “Additionally, the Department will not accept intakes from any jail facility … Continued
April 16, 2020

Two new COVID-19 testing sites in Adamsville, Montgomery

Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday announced two new COVID-19 drive-thru testing sites in Adamsville and Montgomery.  The two sites, supported by Walmart and Quest Diagnostics, will be available to anyone who has symptoms of the virus, as well as health care workers and first responders, according to a press release by Ivey’s office on Thursday.  … Continued
April 16, 2020

Will opening the economy occur sooner rather than later?

President Donald Trump recently suggested that the forced economic shutdown might end before the end of this month. “It’s going to be very, very soon,” Trump said at a press conference on Tuesday, “sooner than the end of the month.” On Monday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said that the state has started conversations on the … Continued
April 16, 2020