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News Articles: Vaccine

Middle school student Elise Robinson receives a coronavirus vaccination on May 12, 2021, in Decatur, Ga. A bill passed on Wednesday, Feb, 1 2023, by a Georgia Senate committee would ban public schools, local governments or state agencies from requiring people to get the COVID-19 vaccine before they could attend school or receive government services.

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Georgia lawmakers could bar COVID-19 vaccine rules for good

Some Georgia senators want to permanently block schools and most government agencies from requiring people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Lawmakers put a one-year ban into law in 2022, but it expires June 30 if they don't act.

February 02, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A Healthcare worker closes a plastic bag containing a coronavirus test kit

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: When will it end? Where Georgia stands with COVID three years into the pandemic

Friday on Political Rewind: On Jan. 21, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the U.S.. Since then, more than 2 million Georgians contracted the virus and nearly 40,000 have died. As a milder variant goes around this winter, we ask a panel of health experts how to best protect ourselves.

January 20, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A bee feeds on honey from a honeycomb at a beekeeper's farm in Colina, on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, Monday, Jan. 17, 2021.

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  • Animals

A biotech firm says the U.S. has approved its vaccine for honeybees

Global honeybee populations have been declining for many years, due to disease, loss of habitat and poor beekeeping practices. A newly approved vaccine helps fight American Foulbrood disease.

January 06, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Minnesota Republican Scott Jensen has appeared with numerous anti-vaccine activists. Their support may have helped him win the state primary for governor.

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  • Politics

Vaccines used to be apolitical. Now they're a campaign issue

Advocates for inoculation are distressed by what they see as a new political focus on an old public health measure.

November 02, 2022
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Health experts agree that the unseasonably early surges of RSV cases, especially among children, are a consequence of lifting COVID-19 precautions, which served to protect the public from a variety of viruses.

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  • Health

RSV is surging. Here's what to watch for and answers about treatment options

Doctors say they are seeing an unprecedented number of cases. How concerned should parents be? Why are young children so vulnerable? What's causing this year's outbreak? We offer some answers.

November 02, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
A person wearing a mask walks past a flower display in front of a supermarket on Front Street East in Toronto on Sept. 16.

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Canada's government says it will stop requiring masks on airplanes

Government officials also confirmed Canada is dropping the vaccine requirement for people entering the country at the end of the month.

September 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. On Thursday, July 21, 2022, New York health officials reported a polio case, the first in the U.S. in nearly a decade. (Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP)

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The first U.S. case of polio since 2013 has been detected in New York

The patient, who has developed paralysis but is no longer contagious according to the AP, may have contracted the virus overseas. The CDC says no cases of polio have originated in the U.S. since 1979.

July 21, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
A close-up of a person in a white buttoned shirt with a red AIDS ribbon.

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  • News

Emory’s Hope Clinic seeks participants for first human clinical trial of HIV vaccine using mRNA

Emory’s Hope Clinic and Vaccine Center is one of four sites in the country participating in the study. The ultimate goal is to vaccinate people against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

June 14, 2022
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  • Ellen Eldridge
An illustration of questions marks combined with the COVID-19 virus.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: More than two years later, where do we stand with COVID? And what comes next?

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Dr. Carlos Del Rio, Dr. Amber Schmidtke, and GPB's own Ellen Eldridge joined the panel for a conversation on the most pressing questions about Covid-19 at the current stage of the pandemic. Who should get another booster? When should you be wearing masks? What lessons can the past two years teach us about public health?

April 06, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Hussein Raad, a 22-year-old college student, gets his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine at Zayoona Mall in Baghdad.

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  • Global Health

Iraq has enough doses of COVID vaccine for everyone. But many Iraqis don't trust it

The vaccination rate is only 17%. People are scared and skeptical for many reasons. Now government health workers are trying to up the numbers. One strategy: vaccination booths in the mall.

February 17, 2022
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  • Jason Beaubien
Bibb County middle school student Sade Veal gets her first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at a back to school event sponsored by Bibb County Schools.

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  • Children's Health

Georgia's head of public health says she's afraid vaccine politics could revive eradicated diseases

Senate bills 372 and 345, have been promoted as being explicitly about stopping mandated proof of COVID vaccination to access government services. But neither mentions COVID and could broadly affect vaccine mandates altogether. 

February 09, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
SARS-CoV-2 is shown in this colorized transmission electron micrograph. This specimen was isolated from a patient in the U.S. Particles of the virus are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab.

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  • Global Health

The future of the pandemic is looking clearer as we learn more about infection

Scientists are beginning to come up with answers to the question of how long antibodies from an infection can protect you — and what they'll protect you from.

February 07, 2022
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By:
  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Bibb County middle school student Sade Veal gets her first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at a back to school event sponsored by Bibb County Schools in 2021.

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  • Health Care

A Georgia bill to head off COVID vaccine 'passports' lands very wide of the mark

Although sponsors say it's aimed at preventing government overreach on COVID-19 vaccinations, a bill filed this week in the Georgia Senate would end the longstanding schedule of mandatory vaccinations for school-children.

January 26, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Amariel Yehudah walks his dog Draco in downtown Sparta, the Hancock County seat, in May 2020.

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  • Health Care

Hancock County reaches a grim COVID milestone. ‘I feel the pain,’ says county coroner

One out of every 100 people in Hancock County, Georgia, has been killed by COVID-19.

January 05, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
A woman is vaccinated against COVID-19 at a clinic in Johannesburg on Dec. 6. A new study from South Africa looks at the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in preventing infection and severe disease.

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  • Global Health

Vaccine protection vs. omicron infection may drop to 30% but does cut severe disease

Data from 78,000 South Africans with COVID show the Pfizer vaccine is far less effective in preventing infection by the omicron variant. But there is still significant protection from severe illness.

December 14, 2021
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
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