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COVID in Alabama: For health care workers, battling coronavirus took a toll
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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The COVID-19 pandemic has tested health care workers like few others.
For the past year, Alabama’s healers have faced a crucible of dying patients, long shifts, limited equipment, makeshift ICUs, and overrun vaccination sites. All of that while crowds won’t wear a mask, some still calling the virus a hoax, and armchair experts convinced they’ve figured out more than the entire medical scientific community.
Then, when the day’s dying efforts are done, many return home to children struggling with virtual school, partners who carry them through trying times and extended families they haven’t seen in months, always worried that they could be spreading the same virus they work so hard to fight.
Nurse manager Kristopher Haskins: COVID brought sadness, ‘moments of complete awe’
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Kris Haskins has served as nurse manager of the COVID-19 unit at USA Health University Hospital.Courtesy of USA Health
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There are other costs, too.
“Since I am continuously exposed to COVID-19, my family and I rarely go anywhere,” said Haskins, 42. “We have only seen our extended family once in the last year. My family, which is usually very social, has been more isolated than we have ever been.”
Looking ahead, Haskins said he thinks the social nature of humans will be a powerful driver to push society back to normal. But he said he also thinks that putting the strains of 2020 behind us won’t be as easy as dropping masks and trading remote work for office time.
State talks vaccine security, releases location information Keeping the COVID vaccines safe and secure By Brittany Dionne | December 14, 2020 at 10:05 PM CST - Updated December 15 at 3:47 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) -
UPDATE: ADPH released information Tuesday about the hospital receiving vaccine:
Athens-Limestone Hospital, Athens; Baptist Medical Center South, Montgomery; Cullman Regional Medical Center, Cullman; DCH Regional Medical Center, Tuscaloosa; East Alabama Medical Center, Opelika; Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville; Lake Martin Community Hospital, Dadeville; Mobile Infirmary, Mobile; Providence Hospital, Mobile; Southeast Health, Dothan; Springhill Memorial Hospital, Mobile; Thomas Hospital, Fairhope; UAB Hospital, Birmingham; USA Health University Hospital, Mobile; USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital, Mobile.
Alabama health department announces list of hospitals getting the coronavirus vaccine
Two Southeast Health physicians prepare to receive the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital this morning. Walter Doty IV, MD, pulmonologist/intensivist and medical director of Southeast Health Critical Care (seated, left) and Ravi Nallamothu, MD, medical director of Southeast Health Hospitalist (seated, right) are attended by Chris Holland, RN, director, Surgical Services and Ben Ryals, RN, nurse manager, ER. Courtesy of Southeast Health
The vaccine is initially being distributed to 15 hospitals in Alabama.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 2:57 PM
Updated: Dec 15, 2020 3:12 PM
Posted By: Ashley Thusius
The Alabama Department of Public Health on Tuesday announced which hospitals are receiving the coronavirus vaccine in the first round of distribution.