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Citing historic underfunding of public health in Georgia, a legislative committee studying how the system is structured and financed has issued five recommendations for change.
A bill to make it easier for foreign-trained doctors to practice in Georgia passed a Senate committee with a unanimous vote on Wednesday, opening the way for the measure to pass two years after it was first proposed.
Starting in March, the call response record for that resource, the Georgia Crisis and Access Line, and its newer national counterpart, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, plummeted in the state. The 988 line was created during President Donald Trump’s first term.
As the federal government makes major changes to food and vaccine policy, public health funding to states is in question, and a neighbor state battles measles, Georgia's Department of Public Health hasn't met since September.
Georgia’s winter respiratory virus season is off to a slow start, with COVID numbers low. But local doctors say they are seeing an uptick in flu and RSV cases, and they expect numbers to rise over the coming months.
