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Alabama won't reach White House vaccination goal
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Alabama won't reach White House vaccination goal

  • Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama continues to have the second lowest COVID-19 vaccination rate in the United States and will be far short of the White House goal of getting 70% of adults vaccinated by July 4.

Health officials urge covid vaccinations
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Health officials urge covid vaccinations

  • Amy Henderson

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is asking all healthcare providers in the state to strongly recommend all age-eligible patients take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Gov. Ivey says pandemic is 'managed,' orders to end
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Gov. Ivey says pandemic is 'managed,' orders to end

  • JAY REEVES | Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Declaring the COVID-19 pandemic "absolutely" managed despite lagging vaccinations, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Monday she will end a state health order meant to guard against the spread of an illness that has killed nearly 11,000 people statewide.

Free rides and beer: Incentives are added to vaccine drive
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Free rides and beer: Incentives are added to vaccine drive

  • CARLA K. JOHNSON and MICHELLE R. SMITH | Associated Press

Free beer, pot and doughnuts. Savings bonds. A chance to win an all-terrain vehicle. Places around the U.S. are offering incentives to try to energize the nation's slowing vaccination drive and get Americans to roll up their sleeves.

Alabama pauses use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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Alabama pauses use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine

  • KIM CHANDLER | Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has temporarily paused giving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine out of an "abundance of caution" while federal officials investigate reports of rare blood clots, the state health officer announced Tuesday.

Winston County faces uphill vaccination effort
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Winston County faces uphill vaccination effort

  • JAY REEVES | Associated Press

HALEYVILLE, Ala. — Tending a thrift store that displays a faded Trump flag in a nearly all-white Alabama county with a long history of going against the grain, Dwight Owensby is among the area's many skeptics of the COVID-19 vaccine.