One year of life-changing uncertainty
500,000 cases, 10,000 deaths: 1 year anniversary of COVID in Alabama
Updated on Mar 13, 2021;
Published on Mar 13, 2021
March 2020 began with hopes of a regular year filled with school, NCAA basketball, summer travel and fall football. March 2021 finds us in a very different world with quarantines, nose swab testing, vaccines, safer-at-home orders and virtual school. This is how we got here. N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com
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Alabama’s involvement with coronavirus didn’t start with its first case being announced on March 13, 2020. A week earlier, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would bring COVID-19 positive evacuees from the cruise ship the Diamond Princess to FEMA facilities in Alabama, the first time the state had to confront growing concerns over the virus. Amid uproar from the public and elected officials, that plan was canceled.
What went wrong with the vaccine rollout in Alabama and what happens next
Updated on Jan 24, 2021;
Published on Jan 24, 2021
Dr. Mary McIntyre, chief medical officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Monday, December 21, 2020 at Baptist South Medical Center in Montgomery. (Governor s Office/Hal Yeager)
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Daphne Crocker, 73, watched the line of cars in front of her pulling away from the Daphne Civic Center. A police officer came to her window to ask if she and her 78-year-old husband had a COVID-19 vaccination appointment. She did not, because she had called and was told to just show up for a shot.
Alabama Photos of the Year 2020
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
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You might think photos could hardly do 2020 justice, but Alabama photographers preserved an unforgettable year in stunning fashion.
Marred by a deadly pandemic that has killed nearly 4,400 people in our state, this year saw too few glimpses of what we might remember as normal life. COVID-19
is 2020. At least that’s how most of us see it. It’s impacted literally every person on the planet, let alone Alabama. And it touched nearly every major story and image we captured.
The pandemic compounded with the death of George Floyd that sparked nationwide protests and rallies for social justice during the summer gave us images we’ll never forget, even if we wish we could. In spite of it, life went on. Sports, graduations, restaurants, churches, elections and other aspects of our daily lives attempted to carry on. Its own disaster, the virus could not stop hurricanes and tornadoes that