Health UAB pediatrician urges parents to vaccinate children 5 to 11 once available COVID-19 is the eighth leading cause of death for the age group. Jacob HolmesOctober 27, 2021
Health FDA advisory committee recommends Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 If the CDC director gives final approval, vaccinations of those younger children could begin as early as next week. Eddie BurkhalterOctober 26, 2021
Health Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth calls for “all-fronts political war” over Biden’s vaccine mandates Alabama has the fourth lowest percentage of fully vaccinated residents in the nation, and more than 15,000 Alabamians have died from COVID-19. Eddie BurkhalterOctober 26, 2021
Health Alabama Democrats: Mandates aren’t new, save lives In a statement responding to Gov. Ivey's executive order, the ADP says vaccine mandates have been in place for generations. Josh MoonOctober 26, 2021
Featured Opinion Opinion | You can’t have it both ways No matter how much they might want to be better, Kay Ivey and GOP leaders are bending to the base. Josh MoonOctober 26, 2021
Health Ivey includes $80 million in federal aid to hospitals, nursing homes in special session Gov. Kay Ivey has included a call for the Legislature to consider allocating $80 million in federal COVID aid to state hospitals and nursing... Eddie BurkhalterOctober 26, 2021
Health Republican state lawmakers commend Ivey’s order on federal vaccine mandate Republican lawmakers called the federal vaccine mandate an "overreach" and said Ivey's executive order would give ammunition to fight the mandates in courts. Eddie BurkhalterOctober 25, 2021
Governor Gov. Ivey issues Executive Order opposing vaccine mandates “Alabamians are overwhelmingly opposed to these outrageous, Biden mandates," Ivey said. StaffOctober 25, 2021
Featured Opinion Opinion | Millions of dollars’ worth of bluster We Dare to Spend Millions of Taxpayer Dollars Unsuccessfully Defending Our Rights. Joey KennedyOctober 24, 2021
Health UA System, Auburn workers must be vaccinated by Dec. 8 President Joe Biden's executive order requires all federal contractors and subcontractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8. Eddie BurkhalterOctober 22, 2021