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Though young and healthy, unvaccinated father dies of COVID
Healthy and in their 30s, Christina and Josh Tidmore figured they were low-risk for COVID-19. With conflicting viewpoints about whether to get vaccinated against the virus filling their social media feeds and social circles, they decided to wait.
In the past four weeks, people ages 25 to 49 years, made up 14% of all COVID deaths in the state. And people 50 to 64 years made up about 29%.
The state is also seeing a surge in COVID cases among children, although deaths so far have been rare. The state this week set a record for pediatric hospitalizations with 50 children hospitalized with COVID-19.
In the past four weeks, 6% of cases of COVID-19 in Alabama have been among children under five while 8% have been among children between the ages of five and 17, according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.
- 1,532 Americans died today from Covid, bit of an upsurge.PhanLo
- it made the news because it happens so rarely. that's how news work.pr2
- It made the news also because it is happening a lot.monospaced
- you took shit today, something that happens a lot to all of us and yet there was no reporter asking you (or me) questions. you got it backward how the news workpr2
- no I don'tmonospaced