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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCovid-stricken Alabama had more deaths than births last year, a first in its recorded history.
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Bianna Golodryga
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For the first time in Alabamas known history, the state had more deaths than births in 2020
Such a gap had never been recorded, not even during World War I, World War II and the flu pandemic of 1918,
A nurse tending to a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala., last December.
Covid-stricken Alabama had more deaths than births last year, a first in its recorded history.
Our state literally shrunk in 2020, said Dr. Scott Harris, the states health officer.
nytimes.com
9:01 AM · Sep 19, 2021
Bianna Golodryga
@biannagolodryga
For the first time in Alabamas known history, the state had more deaths than births in 2020
Such a gap had never been recorded, not even during World War I, World War II and the flu pandemic of 1918,
A nurse tending to a Covid-19 patient in the intensive care unit at East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala., last December.
Covid-stricken Alabama had more deaths than births last year, a first in its recorded history.
Our state literally shrunk in 2020, said Dr. Scott Harris, the states health officer.
nytimes.com
9:01 AM · Sep 19, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/covid-alabama-deaths-birthrate.html
For the first time in Alabamas known history, the state had more deaths than births in 2020 a grim milestone that underscores the pandemics calamitous toll.
Our state literally shrunk in 2020, Dr. Scott Harris, Alabamas state health officer, said at a news conference on Friday. There were 64,714 total deaths in the state last year, compared to 57,641 births, Dr. Harris said.
Such a gap had never been recorded, not even during World War I, World War II and the flu pandemic of 1918, Dr. Harris said. Going back to the earliest available records, in 1900, Weve never had a time when deaths exceeded births, he said.
Nationally, the birthrate declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, and some experts say the pandemic may be accelerating that trend. A study from the University of New Hampshire found that half of the 50 U.S. states had more deaths than births in 2020, compared with only five states with more deaths than births in 2019.
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Covid-stricken Alabama had more deaths than births last year, a first in its recorded history. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2021
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LisaL
(44,962 posts)1. Clearly the solution is to eat more horse paste.
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)2. See, the "great replacement theory" is working!
There are 10,000 Haitians just waiting to move into those homes vacated by the dead. They are hanging out right now under the Freeway bridge in Texas for the buses to take them to Alabama.
Need I add...
Midnight Writer
(21,542 posts)3. It will be interesting to see the long term effects on IQ scores.
Deep State Witch
(10,350 posts)4. Their Solution Will Be
To ban abortion. Watch.
Bristlecone
(10,081 posts)6. They'll certainly blame this atrocious statistic on it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)5. And they call themselves pro-life? Heh. n/t