Thursday, January 28, 2021
Four more Carroll County residents have died from complications related to COVID-19 in the past week, bringing the countys death toll attributed to the novel coronavirus to 38.
Statewide, data released by the Arkansas Department of Health on Tuesday showed the death toll has climbed to 4,650 since last week, an increase of 307 in the past seven days for an average of nearly 44 per day.
In Carroll County, the number of cases also continues to rise with 72 reported in the past week, bringing the cumulative total to 2,480 since the pandemic began. Of those, 114 are still classed as active, a significant reduction from last weeks total of 165. To date, there have been 2,328 cases classified as recovered.
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Alabama
Birmingham: The Birmingham VA Health Care System is expanding its ability to vaccinate veterans against COVID-19, provided it can get enough doses. A partnership with the United Way of Central Alabama will allow the agency to provide as many as 1,000 shots a day beginning this week to veterans who are at least 65 years old, the VA said. That’s up from the current daily total of 300 people. The change comes because the VA’s vaccine clinic is moving into a United Way building in downtown Birmingham. Chief executive Stacy Vasquez said the system will schedule as many veterans as it can for shots, but obtaining additional vaccine is key. “Right now, I have enough vaccine to take care of 5,000 people next week. But then after that, unless I get another shipment, I don’t know,” Vasquez told WBRC-TV last week. The VA’s vaccination program operates on a separate track from the one administered by the Alabama Department of Public H
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Alabama
Birmingham: The Birmingham VA Health Care System is expanding its ability to vaccinate veterans against COVID-19, provided it can get enough doses. A partnership with the United Way of Central Alabama will allow the agency to provide as many as 1,000 shots a day beginning this week to veterans who are at least 65 years old, the VA said. That’s up from the current daily total of 300 people. The change comes because the VA’s vaccine clinic is moving into a United Way building in downtown Birmingham. Chief executive Stacy Vasquez said the system will schedule as many veterans as it can for shots, but obtaining additional vaccine is key. “Right now, I have enough vaccine to take care of 5,000 people next week. But then after that, unless I get another shipment, I don’t know,” Vasquez told WBRC-TV last week. The VA’s vacc
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