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Want normal? Get the dang shot (and take a spin around Talladega)
Updated May 13, 2021;
Posted May 13, 2021
About 50 parents protested Hoover City school district s requirement for students to wear masks at the board meeting on May 10, 2021.
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It’s your choice. I know, and I respect that.
Do you remember “We’re all in this together?” I do, and I still believe it. Naïve as it may seem.
That’s just one reason I got the shot(s), the Covid-19 vaccine. Not just for me (though, yeah, that was a big part of it). For everyone around me. For the people I want to share time and space with. For the people I work out with.
The Birmingham Times
A surge in fentanyl-related cases has pushed the number of drug overdose deaths in Jefferson County to record highs, prompting dire warnings from health officials concerned about tainted drugs.
The number of Black people who have died from overdoses increased 72 percent in the first quarter of 2021, according to health officials.
On Tuesday, the Jefferson County Department of Health (JCDH) along with representatives from other health entities held a press conference at the Guy M. Tate Building in downtown Birmingham addressing the rising number of fentanyl overdose deaths in the county since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health officials raise the alarm over overdose deaths in Birmingham area
Updated May 24, 2021;
A surge in fentanyl-related cases has pushed the number of drug overdose deaths in Jefferson County to record highs, prompting dire warnings from health officials concerned about tainted drugs.
The number of drug overdose deaths in the Birmingham area increased to 99 in the first three months of 2021 compared to 58 the same time last year, an increase of 71 percent, said Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates. The number of overdose deaths linked to fentanyl jumped by 126 percent, he said. Fentanyl is an opioid, but it has been increasingly found in other types of drugs, including stimulants.
New mass drive through vaccination site opens Wednesday (Source: Hawaii News Now) By Alan Collins | April 20, 2021 at 6:46 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 6:46 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - If you want to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot you now have a chance. Wednesday morning, April 21, a mass drive through site will open in Bessemer.
Watermark Place will open it’s doors Wednesday. They will provide a thousand a shots a day, seven days a week and will stay open for eight weeks.
”We could have another increase in cases which will lead to an increase in hospitalizations and deaths. At this point with vaccine so readily available and easy to get, there is no excuse for us having more hospitalizations and deaths,” said Dr. Mark Wilson, Jefferson County Health Officer.