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Economy retools to fight COVID-19

The Ford Motor Company has announced that they, in collaboration with GE Healthcare, will begin building ventilators designed by Airon Corp. at their plant in Rawsonville, Michigan. The United Auto Workers Union has already given their full support to the move. The joint venture between Ford and GE Healthcare to produce the GE/Airon Model A-E … Continued
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April 1, 2020
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Want to slow the spread of coronavirus? Tell people the truth

Alabama hospitals are running out of ICU beds. And ventilators.  Frontline staff is overworked. Nurses and doctors are running low on personal protective equipment (PPEs) and there is none to be had.  And we are only in the early stages of COVID-19’s spread through America. We’ve only recently moved up to third in the world … Continued
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March 25, 2020
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Analysis | Alabama is going to need more ventilators. It seems to have no plan

It has been less than two weeks since Alabama reported its first positive case of the new novel coronavirus. Since then, the number has jumped to 242 positive cases. There are sure to be more. Several hospitals across the state, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health, are already nearing their capacity. At any … Continued
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March 24, 2020

45 COVID-19 cases hospitalized at UAB, 18 on ventilators

UPDATE: For a more recent look at UAB’s hospitalization numbers, look at this page. UPDATE: The Birmingham City Council on Tuesday afternoon passed Mayor Woodfin’s shelter-in-place order. You can read the ordinance at the bottom of this story. Birmingham is the first city in the state to issue such an order to curb the spread … Continued
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March 24, 2020