Covid-19 deaths caused Alabama's population to shrink for the first time since the state started keeping records.
There were more deaths than births in Alabama last year, a first since the state started keeping records and officials said it's directly tied to the coronavirus pandemic.“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” state health officer Dr. Scott Harris said at a Covid briefing. He said it’s the first time in the state’s recorded history that this has happened — saying it’s never “been close” before, not even during World War II or the 1918 flu pandemic.
A nurse works on a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit on Dec. 10, 2020, at the East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika.Alabama's seven-day average of new cases peaked Sept. 1 at an average of 5,538 new cases per day. In the last two weeks, 795 people died in the state, the third-highest rate of reported Covid deaths in that time frame among states.February was also the last time the state's seven-day average of reported deaths was more than 70. .
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