COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama

COVID-19 pandemic in Alabama
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Alabama, U.S.
Index case	Montgomery County
Arrival date	March 13, 2020
Confirmed cases	191,408
Suspected cases^‡	36,965
Hospitalized cases	1,575 (current) 23,449 (cumulative)
Critical cases	1,211 (cumulative)
Ventilator cases	654 (cumulative)
Recovered	90,702
Deaths	3,148 (confirmed) 303 (probable)
Government website
Alabama Department of Public Health
^‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alabama in March 2020. As of January 10, 2022, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADHP) reported nearly a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (or 1 in 5 people) and 16,630 confirmed deaths. At 330 deaths per 100,000 Alabama has the highest death rate in the US along with Mississippi.

As of February 8, 2021, Alabama has administered 473,199 COVID-19 vaccine doses, equivalent to 9.59% of the population.