Sergeants, sons, nurses, mothers: Stories of the 10,000 Alabama lives lost to COVID Updated on Mar 03, 2021; Published on Dec 16, 2020 Senior center director Vanessa McKinney speaks at a memorial service for the late Mayor Billy Joe Driver in Clanton, Ala., on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. Driver's death of COVID-19 shocked the central Alabama community, where residents say many people thought the illness caused by the new coronavirus was a big-city problem until he succumbed. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) AP Twitter Share Those lives are more than numbers. They were war heroes. Police officers and priso...