Dr. Matt Hanserd of Athens-Limestone Hospital is used to dealing with death.As a hospitalist, he routinely treats patients at the end of their lives, patients who have multiple health issues to be juggled, often patients who will not survive their stay.It’s not the deaths caused by COVID-19 that bothers him. It’s the sheer number of…
Dr Michael Saag, who survived COVID-19 and now treats patients with the disease, poses for a portrait at his home in Mountain Brook, Ala., on Friday, July 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves) Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have increased an average of more than 1,500 a day over the past week in Alabama, bringing the total…
Tiara Pennington, Miss Alabama 2019, was born in Florence, grew up in Helena and graduated from Helena High School. She’s a political science major at the University of Alabama. (Joe Songer | [email protected]).Joe Songer | [email protected] Alabama Tiara Pennington announced she and her mother have tested positive for coronavirus.Pennington made the announcement on the Miss…
In this Friday, June 12, 2020 file photo, a nurse uses a swab to perform a coronavirus test.AP Photo/Rick BowmerFor the first time since tracking began, the number of coronavirus cases in Alabama grew by more than 1,000 in a day.The Alabama Department of Public Health’s June 14 10 a.m. numbers show 25,235 cases in…
In a week where headlines mostly avoided COVID-19, Alabama added nearly 2,500 cases of the virus - the second highest weekly total since the start of the pandemic. But deaths due to the virus seem to be flattening out, and new hospitalizations reached a new low this week.According to the Alabama Department of Public Health,…
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COLUMBUS, Miss. — April Hines has battled with her weight since she was a teenager. But in the past couple of years, she’s fallen from 600 pounds to 385, and her blood pressure and blood sugar levels are down, too. “I’m not as fatigued as I used to be, and I’ve been able to go