| COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Alabama, U.S. |
| Index case | Montgomery County |
| Arrival date | March 13, 2020 |
| Confirmed cases | 191,408[1] |
| Suspected cases‡ | 36,965 |
| Hospitalized cases | 1,575 (current) 23,449 (cumulative) |
| Critical cases | 1,211 (cumulative) |
| Ventilator cases | 654 (cumulative) |
| Recovered | 90,702 |
Deaths | 3,148 (confirmed) 303 (probable) |
| Government website | |
| Alabama Department of Public Health | |
| ‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. | |
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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alabama in March 2020. As of January 10, 2022, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADHP) reported nearly a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (or 1 in 5 people) and 16,630 confirmed deaths. At 330 deaths per 100,000 Alabama has the highest death rate in the US along with Mississippi.[2][3]
As of February 8, 2021[update], Alabama has administered 473,199 COVID-19 vaccine doses, equivalent to 9.59% of the population.[4]
- ^ "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH)". www.alabamapublichealth.gov.
- ^ "outbreak.info". outbreak.info. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ "United States COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
- ^ "Alabama's COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Dashboard". Alabama Department of Public Health. Archived from the original on March 20, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2021.