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Koch Foods $16 million expansion in Alabama will bring 135 new jobs

Koch Foods $16 million expansion in Alabama will bring 135 new jobs Updated Jan 21, 2021; A $16 million expansion at Koch Foods in Gadsden is expected to bring as many as 135 jobs to Etowah County. The company is investing $15.9 million to expand the production line at its Gadsden poultry processing plant. The Gadsden City Council approved a 10-year tax abatement Tuesday covering all state and local non-educational property taxes, along with non-educational construction-related transaction taxes. The agreement will mean an increase in funding for schools, city officials said in a news release. The 135 jobs are expected to be added over the next 3 years and will make Koch the county’s second-largest business employer behind Gadsden Regional Medical Center. Koch currently employs 1,040 people in Gadsden.

Etowah County s first responders get opportunity for COVID-19 vaccine

A number of first responders took an important step in the battle against COVID-19 on Tuesday, when they received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine at the Etowah County Health Department. However, the department s nurse supervisor, Jennifer Weeks, cautioned that this is the first step it will take a second dose of the vaccine and a couple of weeks before people should consider themselves protected from the virus. You are not Superman, she said, after this first shot in the arm. You still need to observe all the guidelines to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. First responders and health care professionals were lined up outside the health department before the vaccinations were slated to start at 8:30 a.m. Weeks said the department had about 500 doses to distribute.

GRMC gets 1,500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine; 30 staffers inoculated

Within four hours of receiving the vaccine, the first 30 staffers received it. “We are pleased to share the news that we have received a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines at our facility,” GRMC Chief Executive Officer Justin Bryant said. “Prevention is key since there is no cure for COVID-19. Vaccination is an important step in helping to prevent this illness and its potentially devastating consequences, he said. We are honored to have such an early opportunity to provide the next barrier of defense against this virus.” Jessica Pitcock, director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Gadsden Regional, was the first employee to receive the vaccine. The MICU currently houses COVID positive patients at Gadsden Regional.

COVID-19 case numbers, hospitalizations show need for caution

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Alabama jumped by 2,846 Wednesday more than 600 more new cases than Tuesday and the number of people hospitalized with the virus in Alabama reached 2,353, as the first vaccinations were enthusiastically administered in 15 hospitals. Although it was only a two-patient increase over Monday’s 2,351 people hospitalized, that number has increased every day but one since Dec. 7, when the state topped 2,000 inpatients.  “There’s a lot of excitement over the vaccine distribution beginning in the United States, but we all have to remember that large scale distribution is still a few months away,” East Alabama Medical Center spokesman John Atkinson said.

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