Tamika Palmer, the mother of Breonna Taylor, right, listens to a news conference, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Family attorney Ben Crump is calling for the Kentucky attorney general to release the transcripts from the grand jury that decided not to charge any of the officers involved in the Black woman s death. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
By Erica Wright
The Birmingham Times
What’s left to say about 2020 except that it’s over. But what a year with the well-chronicled coronavirus pandemic that killed more than 300,000; racial unrest that created division in across many communities and a presidential election that was over until it wasn’t. And there was plenty of more to a year that goes down as one of the most memorable in recent history. Here’s some of what happened.
Alabama governor gets vaccine, calls it a safe thing to do
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Gov Ivey gets COVID-19 vaccine, calls it a safe thing to do
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey became one of the first governors on Monday to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, bidding to build public confidence in the vaccinations that will have to be widely administered to ease the pandemic.
“We want to send a clear message to all Alabamians that we can have confidence in this vaccine and its effectiveness. I want to assure people it is a safe thing to do and if everybody will take the vaccine voluntarily we’ll have good strong immunity and it will stop COVID-19,” Ivey said at a news conference.
She spoke after getting the first of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery. State Health Officer Scott Harris and State Chief Medical Officer Mary McIntyre also received the vaccine.
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Dr. Lynn Ridgeway, a pulmonologist, pulls up his sleeve as he receives one of the first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines given to front line workers at Helen Keller Hospital on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Sheffield, Ala. [Dan Busey /The TimesDaily via AP)
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A tray holds discarded doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as over 300 front line workers receive the first round at Helen Keller Hospital on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Sheffield, Ala. [Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP)
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Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, backed by State Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mary McIntyre, left, and State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris, right, speaks with the media after receiving her COVID-19 vaccine at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020.