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 Board of Public Health Chairperson James Curran criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disruption of a vaccine guidance system that was working well.

In a nationwide switch to make WIC paperless, every participant in Georgia will have a debit card with electronic benefits by the end of the year. 

The overarching impact of vaccination, boosting and natural immunity from infection is that hospitalization numbers are now as low, if not lower than, right before last July’s delta wave, Georgia Department of Health epidemiologist Dr. Cherie Drenzek said. 

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