Alabama adds nearly 4,000 COVID cases, breaks single day record following latest backlog - AL.com

Alabama added a record 3,928 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, but the Alabama Department of Public Health reports 706 of those are old.

But even without those old cases, the state added more than 3,000 cases overnight - a number that would have been a record for new cases in a day without a backlog.

For reference, Alabama was shattering records for 7-day average at that time, and it now seems even those high numbers may have been artificially low.

Even without Wednesday’s backlog, Alabama is adding more cases now than it has at any time since the pandemic began.

The state also reported 73 new virus deaths on Wednesday, around 20 of which we know to have occurred since the start of November, though that number is likely to go up.

A record 688 new cases were reported there on Wednesday, though it’s unclear how many of those, if any, were due to the data backlog.

Jefferson County’s 7-day average for new cases broke 400 for the first time Wednesday, and now stands at 403.

Barbour County, in southeast Alabama, reported 18 deaths Wednesday - also more than half its total?