Healthcare worker Felicia Sanders: ‘I still meet people who think (COVID)’s a hoax’
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
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Felicia Sanders of Birmingham, who has been on the front lines combating COVID-19 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, still hears conspiracies about the deadly virus including from her own coworkers.
Arriving for work at UAB recently, she was stunned to hear a fellow health care worker explain that the lasers in digital thermometers used to check temperatures were planted there by Bill Gates as part of a plan 30 years in the making.
The baffling and outlandish conspiracy theory one of many circulating about the virus proved two things to Sanders: One, conspiracy theories during the pandemic are so widespread and pernicious that health care workers who seen the impact of the coronavirus firsthand can still be taken by them. Second, national politics has made the pandemic more difficult to combat. The disheartening exch
Public health experts support CDC guidance on vaccinated people
By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated March 8, 2021, 12:23 p.m.
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Pharmacist Andrea Glennon prepared doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine at the Tufts Medical Center COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Boston.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
Public health specialists on Monday voiced support for new guidelines from the CDC indicating that people fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 can gather with other vaccinated people indoors without wearing a mask or distancing.
The recommendations also say vaccinated people can mix with people considered at low-risk for severe disease; think vaccinated grandparents visiting healthy children and grandchildren.
Struggling Alabama colleges hope for more state funding for COVID recovery
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Lawmakers are trying to give Alabama’s four-year institutions and community colleges a slight bump in state funding after a difficult year.
Higher education has been particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, said Rep. Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa, who leads the Ways and Means Committee in the House. State appropriations are just a fraction of the revenue that fund operations for the universities. As students stayed home, events got postponed and hospitals canceled procedures, state funding became more important to fund colleges’ bottom line and keep people employed.
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