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Birmingham: A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the creator of a popular website for tracking COVID-19 in the state is pondering what will become of his creation once the health care crisis eases. David Marconnet told WBHM he sees two options for his Bama Tracker site, which has been visited by at least 1.5 million people so far and presents publicly available data about the virus in easily accessible, understandable charts and graphs. Bama Tracker could remain online as an archive for researchers or anyone who wants to look through pandemic data, said Marconnet, or it could adapt to track other data that Alabamians find interesting. “I’ve been playing with some ideas there, and I’ve had some struggles figuring out what people would care about,” Marconnet said. “I don’t have an answer there. We’ll just sort of see.” The software developer from Huntsville didn’t have any idea what his side project would become when
Valley doctors reporting more poisonings connected to hand sanitizer
At least 20 Arizonans have died from ingesting hand sanitizer with methanol in it. The FDA has issued a recall on those products. Author: Michael Doudna Updated: 10:33 PM MST March 15, 2021
PHOENIX Hand sanitizer is supposed to keep you safe from germs and keep you healthy not put you in the hospital.
But the Banner Poison Center said it has seen a 140% spike in hand sanitizer incidents around 100 hospitalizations and more than 20 deaths.
“Daily, I mean daily, we get exposures to this,” Maureen Roland, managing director of the Banner Poison and Drug Information Center, said.