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33 Mobile first responders test positive for COVID-19 antibodies

Posted by Dale Liesch | Apr 3, 2020 | Latest, News | 0 |

A total of 33 of the city’s first responders have tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies and one has tested positive for the active disease, Executive Director of Public Safety James Barber confirmed at a press conference Friday afternoon, as more than 800 have been tested.

The results of all 800-plus rapid serum tests have come in and in all, some 10 firefighters and 23 police officers have tested positive for COVID19 antibodies. The presence of antibodies in the blood means the body is either currently fighting the disease, or recently did. All 33 employees have been tested using a nasal, or throat swab to confirm if the disease is still active. Not all of those results have come back, Barber said.

Of the swab tests results that have come back, Barber said, only one police officer tested positive for active COVID-19. All 33 have been quarantined until the results come back and show they are no longer contagious. Barber could not say how many tests have come back negative.

Of the 33 positives, a vast majority of the first responders had no symptoms. Barber said one had very mild symptoms.

Overall, Mobile County has surpassed the century mark with 103 COVID-19 cases, according to an Alabama Department of Public Health database. The 33 first responders are not included in that number. ADPH is also showing five deaths in the county, but only four have been confirmed to this point. Baldwin County currently has 28 cases and one reported death, while the state is dealing with 1,495 confirmed cases and 21 confirmed deaths.

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About The Author

Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch has been a reporter at Lagniappe since February 2014. He covers all aspects of the city of Mobile, including the mayor, City Council, the Mobile Housing Board of Commissioners, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and others. He studied journalism at The University of Alabama and graduated in 2007. He came to Lagniappe, after several years in the newspaper industry. He achieved the position of news editor at The Alexander City Outlook before moving to Virginia and then subsequently moving back a few years later. He has a number of Alabama and Virginia Press association awards to his name. He grew up in the wilderness of Baldwin County, among several different varieties of animals including: dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, a horse and an angry goat. He now lives in the Oakleigh neighborhood of Mobile with his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Joan. The family currently has no goats, angry or otherwise, but is ruled by the whims of two very energetic dogs.

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