For the first time in Alabama’s known history, the state’s deaths have outpaced its births -- a bleak consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
news conferenceHe said that according to available data, which dates back to the early 1900s, this phenomenon was not even seen during the flu pandemic of 1918, or Word War I or World War II.40% of Alabama residentsHarris pointed to the troubling statistic that 1 of 500 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19 -- which he called a “staggering number” -- and noted that although the U.S. has less than 5% of the world’s population, it accounts for more than 15% of deaths.
The average U.S. COVID-19 daily death toll surpassed 2,000 this past weekend for the first time since March 1, according to a
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