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Etowah County s first responders get opportunity for COVID-19 vaccine

A number of first responders took an important step in the battle against COVID-19 on Tuesday, when they received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine at the Etowah County Health Department. However, the department s nurse supervisor, Jennifer Weeks, cautioned that this is the first step it will take a second dose of the vaccine and a couple of weeks before people should consider themselves protected from the virus. You are not Superman, she said, after this first shot in the arm. You still need to observe all the guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. First responders and health care professionals were lined up outside the health department before the vaccinations were slated to start at 8:30 a.m. Weeks said the department had about 500 doses to distribute.

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Postponing surgeries, calling up student nurses, Alabama hospitals enter uncharted territory

Postponing surgeries, calling up student nurses, Alabama hospitals enter ‘uncharted territory’ Updated Dec 17, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 The drive-thru testing site operated by Thrive Alabama in Huntsville reached its testing capacity shortly after opening on June 29, 2020. Demand for COVID-19 tests has increased around the state as Alabama sees record numbers of positive cases and hospitalizations. (Anna Claire Vollers / avollers@AL.com) Facebook Share Hospitals around Alabama have been forced to take steps this week to protect patients and staff as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to rise to record numbers across the state. Southeast Health in Dothan temporarily suspended some elective surgeries. Riverview Regional Medical Center in Gadsden told ambulances it had run out of room in the hospital. And the University of Alabama at Birmingham called some nursing students into service as the hospital struggles with staffing shortages and a high volume of COVID

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COVID-19 case numbers, hospitalizations show need for caution

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alabama jumped by 2,846 Wednesday more than 600 more new cases than Tuesday and the number of people hospitalized with the virus in Alabama reached 2,353, as the first vaccinations were enthusiastically administered in 15 hospitals. Although it was only a two-patient increase over Monday’s 2,351 people hospitalized, that number has increased every day but one since Dec. 7, when the state topped 2,000 inpatients. “There’s a lot of excitement over the vaccine distribution beginning in the United States, but we all have to remember that large scale distribution is still a few months away,” East Alabama Medical Center spokesman John Atkinson said.

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Prayer vigils planned Monday, Tuesday at Gadsden hospitals

Prayer vigils planned Monday, Tuesday at Gadsden hospitals
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George Eugene Bruce

George Eugene Bruce, age 78, passed away December 5, 2020 at Riverview Regional Medical Center in Gadsden, AL. He was preceded in death by his parents George Wayland Bruce and Martha Mae Bruce (Grubbs) and sister Sarah “Sadie” Lane Geiger (Bruce). He is survived by his wife Linda Bruce (Centanni) and their children Paige Batten (Bruce) and Jansen Bruce. Grandchildren Nicholas Batten, Sarah Batten, Brynlee Herron (Bruce) and Lauren Bruce. Great grandchildren are Porter and Amelia Herron. He was born and raised in his hometown of Boaz, Alabama where he started out delivering groceries for his parent’s grocery store, Bruce and Castleberry. The story is that he could barely see to drive over the pickup truck’s steering wheel because he began delivering when he was only 10 years old. He played on every sports team possible growing up and was an avid Alabama football fan. He never missed watching a game…EVER. He graduated from Boaz High School in 1960 and started college at The

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