Alabama

May 7, 2020 | 7:11pm Warning: Graphic language An off-duty Alabama police officer was caught on camera body-slamming a woman in Walmart in an altercation that cops say began because she wasn’t wearing a facemask. Wild video posted by AL.com from the Tuesday incident in the Birmingham big-box store shows the cop placing the woman…

Medical staff of a mobile unit take samples from a woman to test for Covid-19. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)APMobile continues to be Alabama’s coronavirus hot spot.The Alabama Department of Public Health’s 10:30 a.m. number shows 199 new coronavirus cases in the state in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number statewide to 6,779. Mobile…

Alabama Department of Public Health. As of Saturday morning, 77.5 percent of victims were 65 years old or older. The virus also seems to continue to disproportionately affect black Alabamians - 45.1 percent of Alabama victims were black people, even though only only 27 percent of the state’s population is black.Related: Death rate due to…

Alabama Poison Information Center hotline and logoLess than one day after President Donald Trump touted disinfectants’ ability to kill coronavirus, a poisoning expert in Alabama warned residents not to consume bleach and other cleaning products.“Bleach and disinfectants are not for human consumption,” said Ann Slattery, managing director of the Alabama Poison Information Center at Children’s…

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