COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama
Ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Alabama, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alabama in March 2020. As of January 10, 2022, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADHP) reported nearly a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (or 1 in 5 people) and 16,630 confirmed deaths. At 330 deaths per 100,000 Alabama has the highest death rate in the US along with Mississippi.[2][3]
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COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Alabama, U.S. |
Index case | Montgomery County |
Arrival date | March 13, 2020 |
Confirmed cases | 191,408[1] |
Suspected cases‡ | 36,965 |
Hospitalized cases | 1,575 (current) 23,449 (cumulative) |
Critical cases | 1,211 (cumulative) |
Ventilator cases | 654 (cumulative) |
Recovered | 90,702 |
Deaths | 3,148 (confirmed) 303 (probable) |
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Alabama Department of Public Health | |
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. |
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As of February 8, 2021[update], Alabama has administered 473,199 COVID-19 vaccine doses, equivalent to 9.59% of the population.[4]