Alabama least vaccinated state, breaks 17,000 confirmed COVID deaths
The “Alabama Unites Against COVID" campaign seeks to encourage vaccinations and increase access to testing.
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COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective in reducing severity of disease, hospitalizations, and deaths, and available to the public free of charge.
Alabama’s child COVID hospitalizations hit another record, four on ventilators
Of the 97 children hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday, 15 were in ICUs and four on ventilators.
Alabama setting record numbers of child COVID hospitalizations
UAB's Dr. Michael Saag said child hospitalizations could be increasing due to the record numbers of cases the state is seeing.
Alabama’s average daily reported COVID cases breaks 10,000 for first time
Alabama’s COVID hospitalizations reached 1,776 on Monday, a level not seen since Sept. 21 and a 239 percent increase from two weeks ago.
Alabama hospitals, schools react as COVID surges
While some public school systems are requiring masks, others are taking a wait-and-see approach as cases and hospitalizations increase statewide.
Alabama seeing record new COVID cases, hospitalizations continue rising
Treatments for the more contagious omicron variant are in short supply in Alabama as COVID cases surge and hospitalizations grow.
Shipments of treatments for delta resume as COVID surges
A new monoclonal antibody treatment effective against the omicron variant isn't yet available in Alabama as cases and hospitalizations rise.
COVID rising across Alabama
The percentage of COVID tests in Alabama that are positive reached 18.2 percent on Sunday.
Alabama’s positivity rate rising sharply as cases begin to increase
Alabama's percent of tests that are positive increased by 76 percent over two weeks. New cases and hospitalizations are rising as well.