This month marks two years since the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in the state of Alabama. State Health Officer Scott Harris made it clear that we could have never been prepared for the impact.
“I don’t think the world was ready, said Harris. “We wish we had been better resourced, and better staffed and all those things to begin with, but I don’t think anybody could have really been prepared.”
“These aren’t just deaths, that would have happened anyway, that were just attributing to COVID, these are deaths that mostly wouldn’t have occurred,” said Harris. “We’re also going to have two straight years for the first time in the history of our state of more deaths than births in Alabama. That’s never before happened.”Harris says when taking a closer look at how we’ve navigated this pandemic you can see a lot of things worked.
In January of this year the omicron variant spread across the state, causing cases and hospitalizations to surge upward. A record was set during that time with the test positivity rate reaching 45.2%.Harris says with numbers trending downward, many Alabamians are now returning to some sense of normalcy. But he urges those with certain chronic health problems, immune system disorders and are vulnerable in any way to be very careful.
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