Good morning! If you are not vaccinated, but feel like you might be ready, here’s how to find a vaccine:
- Call the Health Department Vaccine Scheduling Resource Line at (888) 457-0186. Hours are Monday-Friday, 8 AM-8 PM, and weekends 8 AM-5 PM.
- Visit the DPH Vaccine Scheduling Portal.
- Visit Vaccine Finder.
- Find a vaccination pop-up event.
Do it for yourself, do it for a loved one, do it so all the kids who are off to school this week can have a glimmer of hope for a normal school year.
- Morehouse College joins Clark Atlanta university in clearing student account balances.
- Using what may be one of the most short-sighted GOP legislative victories of the 2021 session, Governor Kemp established a newly-legal, completely unlimited, almost entirely opaque “leadership fund.”
- The state may be due to receive $500 million in Medicaid overpayments to insurers, largely because many Medicaid recipients forwent medical care during the pandemic.
- One Georgia COVID-19 expert likens sending kids back to school without masks to, “Willingly choosing to endanger children by not doing the bare minimum of disease control and prevention should be treated the same way as knowingly allowing someone drunk to drive a school bus.”
- As this latest surge rages on, a recent Department of Defense memo details new mask regulations. Here’s what they mean for Georgia’s bases.
- At least two superior court judges tested positive for COVID following a recent judicial conference in Jekyll Island (and it’s not unreasonable to expect that more diagnoses are forthcoming).
- In Colquitt County, ICU beds are full and medical leaders are bracing for the worst as the current COVID-19 surge continues.
- Beachgoers in St. Simons must contend with heat, humidity — and oil from the wreck of the Golden Ray that is washing up as the salvage operation proceeds. (Hint to oily beachcombers: baby oil will help get that oil off of your feet.)
Whew. It’s only Tuesday morning, y’all. This week and the next several will undoubtedly be doozies as this latest surge collides with the first few weeks of school. It’s true that the only way out is through – but if as many people as possible choose to love thy neighbor and be vaccinated, that journey through – and what awaits us on the other side – will be a whole lot less arduous.