Alex Kelley would have liked to go to prom. Or senior field day. Or at least a graduation ceremony.But the senior at the Montgomery Academy, a private K-12 school in Alabama’s capital city, began remote learning on Zoom in mid-March along with millions of other students throughout the country. Over the
But the senior at the Montgomery Academy, a private K-12 school in Alabama’s capital city, began remote learning on Zoom in mid-March along with millions of other students throughout the country. Over the next several weeks of isolation, he and his classmates were stripped of the pomp and circumstance that usually accompany their rite of passage.
In an interview, Dr. Jodie Dionne-Odom, an assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama and chief of Women’s Health Services at 1917 Clinic in Birmingham, emphasized the warning Americans have been hearing for months: “The virus is very easily transmitted, and we know that it spreads even more easily when a lot of people are packed close together indoors.
Especially with Memorial Weekend in the days ahead, Emergency Management Agency Director Christina Thornton pleaded with residents to stay home as much as possible. Ridgeway added that he “nearly broke into tears” last week when his facility received a shipment of Remdesivir, the promising therapeutic drug that has been touted by top medical authorities after early clinical trials delivered positive, albeit preliminary, results.
Dionne-Odom, the University of Alabama professor, said the state has seen a steady increase from about 250 to about 350 in its daily case counts over the past several weeks, with rises coming in both urban and rural areas. As of Thursday afternoon, there were at least 13,052 confirmed cases in Alabama and 522 deaths.
As Dionne-Odom explained, the state’s number of hospitalizations appeared to hit a plateau in April, but numbers have swung back up in recent weeks. And projections over the next month are even more dire.
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