(Editor’s note: This town hall series will air at 11 a.m. each Wednesday through October 6 on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. Following the live broadcast, the shows will be available to watch anytime on social media or on AL.com. Recordings of the shows will be available at 3 p.m. every Wednesday, and listeners can dial toll free 1-800-472-0172 to listen. Do you have questions for the panel? Email them to Ivana at ihrynkiw@al.com, to vaccines@al.com, or send them via social media.)
Join us at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, for the third of a five-part town hall series on COVID-19 and our daily lives as we move closer to 2022. The upcoming show will focus on politics and its effect on coronavirus.
Our COVID-19 town hall series, presented by AARP of Alabama, focuses on the virus, the vaccine and their effects on different aspects of our lives and the state. Each Wednesday, host Ivana Hrynkiw will ask reader questions to a panel of experts about the weekly topic.
This week, listen to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Gov. Kay Ivey, and Alabama House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels talk about their thoughts on vaccines, leading through a pandemic, how they get factual information and more.
The upcoming topics for the next two shows, following Wednesday’s episode, include faith and grief. A previous Town Hall focused on medical questions, and featured Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris and UAB’s infectious disease expert Dr. Michael Saag.
In addition to the expert panel, viewers who watch the show live have the opportunity to ask healthcare questions about COVID-19 answered directly by a UAB Medicine health professional in the comments section for our Facebook Live broadcast. The live commenting experience is just one way AL.com is working to bring factual information from the experts directly to you.
You can watch the first show here, which included Assistant State Health Officer Dr. Karen Landers, child psychiatrist Dr. Amin Gilani, Mental Health Services Coordinator for Midfield Schools Camille Underwood and UAB Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Claudette Poole.
The shows will air each Wednesday at 11 a.m. through October 6 on Facebook Live and YouTube Live. Following the live broadcast, the shows will be available to watch anytime on social media or on AL.com. Recordings of the shows will be available at 3 p.m. every Wednesday, and listeners can dial toll free 1-800-472-0172 to listen. RSVP to the Facebook event page here so you are alerted when the video goes live.
Do you have questions for the panel? Email them to Ivana at ihrynkiw@al.com, to vaccines@al.com, or send them via social media.