As a front line health care worker, Leeanne Jenkins of Elizabethtown has witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of COVID-19 throughout the past year.
A respiratory therapist for Baptist Health Hardin, Jenkins said from watching patients lose their lives to watching families limited to online interaction with loved ones hospitalized, the year has been hard.
Thatâs why for Jenkins receiving the COVID-19 vaccine was a like a âChristmas present.â
âI was relieved that there was hope coming for us,â she said. âWe not only have personal protective equipment but we also now have those antibodies to keep us healthy, keep us strong and to put an end to all this craziness and madness so we can start seeing each otherâs faces and start smiling again.â
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Tuscaloosa:No community spikes in coronavirus infections related to last week’s celebration of the University of Alabama football team’s national championship have been reported at local hospitals. But Mayor Walt Maddox said Tuesday the situation could change in the coming days. New arrivals at DCH Health System hospitals have remained fairly level since the daily inpatient totals soared above 100 in early December, according to the latest data from City Hall. “Although it’s not going down, it’s not going up precipitously,” Maddox said, “and certainly we’ll take that bit of good news.” Outside of Monday’s count of 31, the number of those arriving at DCH Health System hospitals suffering from the coronavirus has averaged about 20 per day for the past week. In that span, DCH had admitted 154 new COVID-19 patients while discharging 176 who had recovered. Among those admitted, 36% are from within the Tuscaloosa city l