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News Articles: vaccine hesitancy

A vial labelled "Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine" is seen in this illustration taken Jan. 16, 2022. Photo by Dado Ruvic/Illustration/REUTERS

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  • Health

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Georgia could breach the divide with the unvaccinated

Health care providers hope the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine will appeal to people who haven't recieved any doses of previous vaccine iterations. 

August 10, 2022
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Young women wait to get vaccinated by Namra, a 21-year-old health worker who's part of a national door-to-door vaccination effort in the informal Hindubasti settlement in Karachi.

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  • Global Health

Pakistan has a big idea: Send 13,000 teams led by women to vaccinate the hesitant

The vaccinators are going door-to-door in what the government is calling an unprecedented effort, toting coolers with a mix of COVID vaccine types.

March 05, 2022
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Abdul Sattar
16-year-old Nico Montero wrote an op-ed about getting vaccinated for his school's newspaper.

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  • Health

This 16-year-old wanted to get the COVID vaccine. He had to hide it from his parents

At 16, Nicolas Montero is old enough to get vaccinated on his own in some parts of the country. But he had to try to get the jabs without his parents knowing, since they're opposed to the vaccine.

February 18, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Feldman
Peanut farmer Gerue Reliford, Jr. gets checked into the mobile vaccine clinic parked in Preston, Ga. recently. Reliford said he'd been anxious to get vaccinated but had to wait for the age limit to drop to 55+. Even so, it was hard to take time from harrowing peanut fields in the spring to make an appointment. The mobile clinic helped. "I just jumped in my truck and came over," Reliford said.

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  • Health

Rural parts of Georgia — where vaccination rates were low — got hit harder by COVID-19's delta wave

A new study finds the delta variant of the coronavirus hospitalized and killed far more people in rural parts of the state than in urban areas. Researchers say this provides further proof that vaccines mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

February 17, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old.

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  • Global Health

A 104-year-old COVID survivor has died. He wanted to keep people safe until the end

In his final days, Alim asked people not to visit him or his family due to rising COVID cases in his community. "Even in death he wanted to keep people and our family safe," says his son.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Benazir Samad
mother holding a child and sitting next to a second child

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  • Children's Health

Omicron is leading Georgia’s highest-ever case count of COVID-19 infection among children

COVID-19 cases among children are the highest they’ve been since the start of the pandemic.  

 

January 07, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Tammi Brown, Chatham County Health Department Nurse Manager, was among the first in Georgia to receive the vaccine against COVID-19, as Memorial University Medical Center emergency room nurse David Wilson awaits another dose and Gov. Brian Kemp and State Sen. Ben Watson look on.

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  • Health

The first COVID-19 shots arrived a year ago. Just 50% of Georgians are fully vaccinated

Public health and government officials sighed with relief when COVID-19 vaccinations came to Coastal Georgia last December. The first 84,000 doses were set aside for those working in health care, including Dr. Kathleen Toomey, the commissioner for the Georgia Department of Public Health.  

She spoke after receiving her first shot, saying vaccination felt like the "light at the end of a tunnel" after a long, hard year.

December 14, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
YouTube has announced immediate bans on false claims that vaccines are dangerous and cause health issues such as autism, cancer or infertility.

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  • Health

YouTube Is Banning All Content That Spreads Vaccine Misinformation

The site announced that videos that contain vaccine misinformation will be removed.

September 29, 2021
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By:
  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
A man holds his vaccination reminder card after having received his first shot at a pop-up vaccination site next to Maximo Gomez Park, also known as Domino Park, Monday, May 3, 2021, in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.

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  • Health

Georgia Today: The Campaign to Vaccinate Georgia’s Latino Communities

With 44% of its population fully vaccinated, Georgia is running far behind the rest of the nation. For the state's Latino community, a population that has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, vaccination rates are even lower. The Rev. Irma Guerra, a Mexican immigrant and minister at Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross, has used her platform to be a vaccine evangelizer and to dispel some of the misinformation about the vaccine through social media, her pulpit and going door to door. 

 

 

September 24, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jahi Whitehead
People opposed to COVID-19 vaccines often embrace ivermectin, a drug they think is not getting the attention it deserves. Here, an anti-vaccination protester takes part in a rally against vaccine mandates last month in Santa Monica, Calif.

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  • Health

How Ivermectin Became The New Focus Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement

Scientists are still studying whether the deworming medicine could have any effect on COVID-19. But the frenzy over the drug has far more to do with politics than science. Here's how that happened.

September 20, 2021
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By:
  • Pien Huang
An illustration of a COVID-19 virus

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: A Candid COVID Conversation With The Experts On Vaccines, Pandemic Trends And More

Two top public health experts join Political Rewind to answer questions about the current COVID-19 surge. Does the latest data tell us we’ve reached the peak in new cases of COVID-19 in the state? Are hospitals still facing a care crisis?

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 1 more
Wenderson Cerisene, 7, right, and his sister Dorah, 9, wait to get tested for COVID-19 in August 2021 in Florida.

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  • News

Georgia Today: Largely Unvaccinated, Georgia Children Face Brunt Of The Raging Delta Variant

Georgia faces its worst crisis of the pandemic, with more patients than ever before hospitalized for COVID-19. The state's also breaking records for the number of children in the hospital with the virus. As the delta variant tightens its grip on the state, the Georgia Today podcast gets a firsthand account of the situation inside Georgia's pediatric hospitals from Dr. Matthew Linam, an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University.  
 

September 03, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a press conference.

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  • Health

Kemp Says Georgians Can Choose Not To Get Vaccinated, But They May Die Of COVID-19

Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday may have, perhaps, made his most direct plea for Georgians to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

"I mean, the numbers do not lie; 95% of the people in the hospital with COVID-19 have not been vaccinated," Kemp told reporters during a news conference. "And I would urge you to do that. That is what we need to unite and focus on instead of having, you know, different mandates and all that."

August 30, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Vaccine site in Coastal Georgia

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  • Health

Community Effort Works To Move Savannah Conversations To Vaccinations

While Chatham’s average is slightly higher rate than Georgia’s overall vaccine rate of 42%, it falls woefully short of the levels needed to achieve “herd immunity,” when enough of the population is vaccinated in order to protect those that can’t be, such as children and immunocompromised people. 

August 26, 2021
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By:
  • Jacqueline GaNun
Delta Airlines is mandating new COVID-19 rules for its employees in the wake of the delta variant.

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  • News

Delta Air Lines Implements New COVID Rules For Employees

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is implementing new policies for its employees as the COVID-19 delta variant continues to take a toll on hospital systems across the country, including charging employees $200 per month if they fail to get vaccinated.

August 25, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah Rose
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