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If you happened to catch the latest season of Netflixs The Crown, you couldnt miss Gillian Andersons stunning performance as the late Margaret Thatcher, Britains prime minister from 1979 to 1990. But how authentic was Andersons portrayal? Or Meryl Streeps in the film The Iron Lady? Nile Gardiner, an aide to Thatcher and director of Thatcher Center for Freedom and fellow at Heritage Foundation, will dismantle media portrayals as needed and describe the real person at the heart of world politic...

Health officials concerned over variant cases and the impact on children COVID variants and children By Lauren Jackson | May 2, 2021 at 11:21 PM CDT - Updated May 2 at 11:21 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Coronavirus cases are slowly rising across the state again. Officials said they have seen a 1% increase in just the last two weeks, and one reason may be the more contagious COVID-19 variants circulating. “Those variants are much more transmissible person to person,” UAB infectious dise...

“I don’t care if it’s COVID or some other illness,” wu said. “I want to get better.”

Health officials say we need to be paying close attention to COVID outbreak in India Could India surge impact U.S. situation? By Lauren Jackson | April 30, 2021 at 11:03 PM CDT - Updated April 30 at 11:03 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Covid-19 cases are falling across the country, but that trend is not global, as a new outbreak is flooding India’s healthcare systems right now with many different variant strains circulating. Local infectious disease experts said we need to be paying close ...

By David Smith Apr 30, 2021 Dr. Michael Saag from the Infectious Disease Department at UAB answers questions on Coronavirus, the vaccines and new CDC guidelines regarding masks.  

Will the FDA began approving more medicine with emergency use authorization? Will fast-tracking treatments become more normal? By Lauren Jackson | April 29, 2021 at 11:00 PM CDT - Updated April 29 at 11:00 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Pfizer officials are hoping for a fast-tracked approval from the FDA for their at-home COVID-19 treatment pill. It’s still in clinical trial, but they said it could be launched by the end of the year if approved quickly. “As those are proven to be effecti...

What COVID-19 symptoms to still look out for even after being fully vaccinated Getting COVID after vaccination - what you should look for By Lauren Jackson | April 29, 2021 at 11:04 PM CDT - Updated April 29 at 11:04 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - More than 200 people across the state have caught COVID-19 after being vaccinated. It’s called breakthrough Covid. “About 5% of people, 1 out of 20 who have an exposure, will develop some degree of symptoms,” UAB infectious disease e...

Tuesday, April 27. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Joe Biden entered the White House with two goals: ending the COVID-19 pandemic and uniting a politically divided country. Increasingly, they look...

Vaccine hesitancy still a problem in Alabama Vaccine hesitancy By Alan Collins | April 26, 2021 at 5:31 PM CDT - Updated April 26 at 7:48 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alabama continues to have a problem getting people to clinics to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Alabama, according to the CDC, ranks dead last in the country. There have been some improvements, but not enough to put the pandemic behind us. Alabama has more vaccines and healthcare providers offering shots than just a month a...

Kaiser Health News One night in March 2020, Joy Wu felt like her heart was going to explode. She tried to get up and fell down. She didn’t recognize friends’ names in her list of phone contacts. Remembering how to dial 9-1-1 took “quite a bit of time,” she recalled recently. Wu, 38, didn’t have a fever, cough or sore throat — the symptoms most associated with COVID-19 at the time — so doctors at the hospital told her she was having a panic attack. But later she developed those sym...