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Alabama loosens licensing rules for doctors as virus rages

by Jay Reeves
| December 14, 2020 2:27 PM

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Regulators have loosened rules to make it easier for out-of-state doctors to work in Alabama as the coronavirus pandemic both fills hospital beds and strains medical staff by sickening doctors and nurses, officials said Monday as the first doses of vaccine arrived.

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