Alabama governor facing pressure on both sides of mask debate Share Updated: 6:08 PM CST Mar 3, 2021 WVTM 13 Digital Share Updated: 6:08 PM CST Mar 3, 2021
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Show Transcript you know, while if you look at our overall big picture for covid right now, we are so much better than we were two months ago. Hospitalizations are down. New cases, new cases are down. Um, so So that s fantastic. Vaccine is rolling out all those fantastic things. But guess what? We are not out of the woods yet. We are not there yet. And just looking at the data, you know, this is not driven by emotion or feeling. Let s just be scientific. Let s look at the data and what the data suggest is we are not out of the woods yet. It s not time to do away with the mask mandate we need to continue masking in social situations. We still have the covid variants out there that have proven to be much more contagious. Um, and you know, while we have some of that he
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Medical officials welcomed Ivey s decision after recommending an extension, arguing that easing restrictions before more people were vaccinated could reverse recent improvements. Alabama s rolling seven-day average of daily cases has dropped from 3,000 in early January to below 1,000 and hospitalizations are at their lowest point since summer. This is very good news. This gives us a month to vaccinate more people and to get a better handle on the role of the UK variant, said Dr. Don Williamson, the former state health officer who now heads the Alabama Hospital Association.