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Updated: Oct. 15, 2021 at 9:16 AM CDT
|By Kellie Miller
Dr. Ali Hassoun, infectious disease specialist, said the goal of these boosters is to help maintain your immunity and keep antibody levels high.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2021 at 1:41 PM CDT
|By WBRC Staff
There’s no way of telling how many cases will be confirmed in Alabama, but the state began taking precautions on Friday, March 13, 2020.
Updated: Oct. 8, 2021 at 10:52 AM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Harris will comment on the current COVID-19 mitigation efforts in the state.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2021 at 3:38 PM CDT
|By Kelsey Duncan
Huntsville Hospital announced their Community Vaccination Clinic in John Hunt Park will offer booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine starting Wednesday, Sept. 29.
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Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 12:34 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Pediatricians are encouraging parents of children 12 and over to get them vaccinated for COVID-19.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 5:51 PM CDT
|By Erin Davis
The wait time for a COVID-19 test could soon go from a few hours to few seconds due to new rapid testing technology being developed by engineers at Auburn University.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 8:45 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“It’s too much and you’re not getting any compensation for it, you’re not making enough money to do it and these nurses are getting worn out.”
Updated: Sep. 13, 2021 at 10:08 PM CDT
|By Lauren Jackson
Officials with the state health department say Covid-19 cases in children are making up about a fourth of the state’s overall cases right now.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 7:04 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“We’re doing everything we can but, that’s still not enough,”
Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 7:25 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
The testing clinic is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 3p.m.-8p.m.
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Updated: Sep. 8, 2021 at 6:36 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“If there is a breakthrough case or a case in a highly vulnerable person, the monoclonal antibody is life saving,”
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 8:18 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“If you think it can save someone’s life, it’s important for everybody to be vaccinated,”
Updated: Sep. 7, 2021 at 4:30 PM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Starting this week Huntsville Hospital’s Fever and Flu Clinic will have separate COVID-19 testing for children up to age 18.
Updated: Sep. 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM CDT
|By Kelsey Duncan
The Alabama Department of Public Health introduced a COVID-19 vaccine initiative on Thursday at 11 a.m. ahead of the 2021-2022 college football season.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM CDT
|By Brittany Dionne
Recovering from COVID-19 does offer natural immunity against the virus, according to health officials, but it’s not enough long-term.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2021 at 4:13 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and Erin Davis
Alabama’s hospitals continue to hover at just under 2,900 COVID-19 inpatients with the number of pediatric cases continuing to climb.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 10:45 PM CDT
|By Lauren Jackson
Children’s of Alabama reports an increase in the number of school age children coming into the emergency room with COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 27, 2021 at 9:52 AM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Dr. Harris will issue an update on COVID-19 mitigation efforts in the state.
Updated: Aug. 26, 2021 at 9:40 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
Alabama is seeing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in school-age children, leading some schools to announce a temporary return to remote learning.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2021 at 12:32 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino and Kelsey Duncan
Bella Winters, known for her tremendous heart transplant story has tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 3:25 PM CDT
|By Anna Mahan
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is strongly urging women in all stages of pregnancy to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 9:00 AM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Huntsville Hospital is set to host a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Parkway Place Mall this Saturday.
Updated: Aug. 24, 2021 at 8:32 AM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
According to the CDC, pregnant women are at increased risk for severe illness and death from COVID, and only around 16% of pregnant women have had their first dose. Dr. Lauren Mann says the benefits of the vaccine for those pregnant, breastfeeding, or hoping to conceive outweigh the risks.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 10:18 PM CDT
|By Lauren Jackson
State health leaders said there has been a significant increase in the number of people getting vaccinated across the state.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 8:48 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
One Alabama lawmaker says he and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 20, 2021 at 8:46 PM CDT
|By WBRC Staff
Whether you take Acmetra for arthritis, an auto immune disease, or because you are hospitalized with COVID-19, the drug will soon be difficult to get a hold of.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2021 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Three schools in Lawrence County will transition to virtual learning due to COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 at 7:29 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“We are approaching a situation where it’s going to becoming increasingly difficult to impossible for patients to get timely access to ICU beds,”
Updated: Aug. 17, 2021 at 12:15 PM CDT
|By WBRC Staff
We currently have 373 students/staff who are either positive or quarantined.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2021 at 2:45 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff and Erin Davis
Nursing homes carry particular concern since the elderly make up one of the largest at-risk populations for COVID-19.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2021 at 2:29 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“We’ve had in or service 20-year-old’s incubated and very, very sick and we’ve seen people dying from this without any health issues,”
Updated: Aug. 13, 2021 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By Josh Gauntt
Vaccinations are up in Alabama but our overall rate remains one of the lowest in the country. Some doctors fear that could give rise to a new variant.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2021 at 10:02 PM CDT
|By Cassie Fambro
The baby’s mother, just 32-years-old, was admitted to a Mississippi hospital with COVID complications and within the week, died from the virus. Her last act was giving birth to her baby girl.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2021 at 7:16 PM CDT
|By Madison Scarpino
“Until we get enough people vaccinated to protect us all from this, we’re just gonna continue to see this revamp it’s ugly face over and over and over again,”
Updated: Aug. 10, 2021 at 9:46 PM CDT
|By DeAndria Turner
One Lauderdale county mobile vaccine clinic moving to new location
Updated: Aug. 8, 2021 at 8:01 PM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Athens City Hall will reopen to the public Monday, August 23.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2021 at 10:48 AM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Huntsville Hospital has made new restrictions to their visitation policy, effective at 12:00 p.m. Friday, August 6.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 at 8:38 PM CDT
|By Nolan Crane
As of July 4th, 2021 there are 131 people from Madison County in the hospital with the virus.
Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 at 4:10 PM CDT
|By WBRC Staff
The Alabama Department of Public Health leaders said Alabama hospitals have been admitting significantly more COVID-19 patients recently, including patients who are younger, sicker and unvaccinated. As a result, emergency rooms are being overwhelmed.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 9:44 PM CDT
|By Catherine Patterson
And over the past three weeks in Alabama, we’ve seen a 215 percent increase in the average number of newly vaccinated people per day. Louisiana saw a 302 percent increase.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 5:16 PM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff and Stefante Randall
Arab City Schools will require universal masking for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors regardless of vaccination status effective August 3, 2021.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2021 at 2:19 PM CDT
|By WSFA 12 News Staff
Alabama State University and Auburn University have both announced mask requirements.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2021 at 12:36 PM CDT
|By Lauren Jackson
UAB, sixty percent of their patients are on ventilators or Echo machines. Statewide, about one third of patients are on ventilators.
Updated: Jul. 31, 2021 at 6:04 AM CDT
|By Josh Gauntt
Misinformation about the vaccine is one of the biggest hurdles health leaders fight on a daily basis and that’s leading to some younger people refusing to get a shot.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2021 at 8:28 PM CDT
|By DeAndria Turner
Is this renewed push to get people vaccinated working?
Updated: Jul. 26, 2021 at 8:46 AM CDT
|By WAFF 48 Digital Staff
Monday's press conference is slated to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2021 at 11:10 PM CDT
|By Lauren Jackson
CDC is set to meet next week, July 22nd, and he said discussing booster shots for people with weak immune systems is on the agenda.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2021 at 11:08 PM CDT
|By Lauren Jackson
Alabama’s economy has been on the rise since the COVID vaccine became widely available.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2021 at 11:25 PM CDT
|By Josh Gauntt
The White House is trying to crack down on COVID-19 misinformation. U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called the situation an urgent threat to public health.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2021 at 7:53 PM CDT
|By DeAndria Turner
School preparing for upcoming year, monitoring increase in COVID cases