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Army Corps Studying Dams, Fish Flow in Alabama River

The Army Corps of Engineers is in year one of a three-year study of possible ways to get fish around two dams on the Alabama river - the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam, southwest of Selma, and the Claiborne Lock and Dam, northwest of Monroeville. “The basic idea is to restore a fish passage to the lower Alabama River and to connect the Cahaba River to allow the passage of fish naturally up the Alabama River into the Cahaba River, as was historically the case,” said Paul Johnson, program supervisor at the Alabama Aquatic Biodiversity Center. Read more.

by Mary Sell, Alabama Daily News

COVID-19 Takes Another Dip in Alabama

COVID-19 continues to trend downward in Alabama and this week is averaging about 90% fewer average daily cases and hospitalizations than when the state hit its all-time peak in January. Read more.

by Virginia Martin

The Tragedy of North Birmingham

Industrial plants in Birmingham have polluted the air and land in its historic Black communities for over a century. In an epicenter of environmental injustice, officials continue to fail to right the wrongs plaguing the city’s north side. Read more.

by Max Blau, ProPublica

COVID Still Topping 2020 Numbers in Alabama, but Conditions Not as Bad as in 2021

Although many Alabamians seem to believe the pandemic is over, judging by the lack of masks being worn inside stores and other public buildings, the virus actually is affecting more Alabamians now than it did two years ago. On Thursday, the average of new cases being reported daily in the state was 2,099, according to New York Times data. Not only is that a 4% increase from two weeks ago, it’s a 41% increase over the average number of new cases reported the week ending Sept. 1, 2020, when the average of new daily cases reported was 1,482. But the most recent case numbers are at just less than half of what they were last year, when an average of 4,307 new cases had been reported daily in the week that ended Sept. 1. Read more.

by Virginia Martin

Local Health Officials Plan to Increase Monkeypox Vaccinations

The Jefferson County Department of Health is beginning to scale up its immunization efforts against monkeypox, under new guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. By next week, health department officials said it will begin offering intradermal injections of the Jynneos vaccine, a method that was granted emergency use authorization Wednesday by the FDA.

by Mary Scott Hodgin, WBHM

Masks Up, Health Department Advises as COVID Continues to Climb Again

It’s time for Alabamians who do not want to catch COVID to put back on their masks. That was the advice from the Alabama Department of Public Health this week as cases continued to increase across the state. After the state’s positivity rate dropped to single digits in the spring and hospitals cleared out their overflow patients, people began to think the pandemic was over. It is not. Hospitalizations have been rising in recent weeks, and 677 people diagnosed with COVID were in Alabama hospitals Friday, According to the Alabama Department of Public Health’s COVID dashboard. That’s the highest number since February, but it’s not nearly the almost 3,000 daily average COVID patients in hospitals in January. The state’s positivity rate, which shows the portion of people who were officially tested for COVID-19 and returned a positive result, has risen to 30.2%. Read more.

by Virginia Martin
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