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UAB Hospital received its first shipment of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday morning.
In a gathering of 20 people, there's more than a 50% chance that one person in that gathering will be infectious and contagious with COVID-19, according to Jefferson County Health Officer Dr. Mark Wilson.
Alabama will receive about 41,000 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, which will be distributed at 16 vaccination sites at hospitals across the state.
Alabama continues to break records as cases of COVID-19 increase at the highest rate yet.