Алабамские вести
Data from the Alabama Department of Public Health shows there were about 7,000 more deaths than births in Alabama in 2020. It also shows there were 10,605 more total deaths in 2020 than in 2019.
“Our state literally shrunk this year for the first time in history, even going back to World War II, when people were serving overseas; going back to the Spanish Flu epidemic, when we had the flu in our state; going back to World War I. We’ve never seen that happen before in the state of Alabama until COVID this past year.
“We’ve get skeptical people who go, ‘Oh well, those were just older people who were going to die anyway, and you’re just attributing their deaths to COVID.’ That is not the case,” he said. “We had six or seven thousand COVID deaths last year. That’s about how many excess deaths we had in the state of Alabama.
ADPH reports nearly 7,200 COVID deaths in Alabama occurred in 2020, and another 5,600 have been reported so far in 2021.”