Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris said Friday that 65,511 doses of vaccines against COVID-19 have gone to waste in the state as it grapples with a surge in cases and seeks to boost vaccine uptake. At a briefing Friday, Harris said the Alabama Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 daily case graph is “almost vertical at this point.” On Friday, Alabama recorded 3,653 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, bringing the state’s seven-day average of daily cases above 2,900 for the first time since January, according to data from the Alabama Department of Public Health. Harris said that several consecutive days of Alabama adding more than 3,000 cases per day represents a tenfold increase over early July. While a growing number of Alabamians are getting vaccinated, Alabama remains the least fully vaccinated state with a 34.7 percent rate, according to the Centers for Disease …