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03/15/2021 ���Doraville, Georgia ��� Nurse Ashley Tolisano prepares a vile with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a DeKalb Board of Health COVID-19 vaccination site located at the Doraville MARTA transit station in Doraville, Monday, March 15, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Lendahl Lagaly, left, and Duncan Anderson take a selfie next to the status of Phil Niekro before the Atlanta Braves home opener. As more people get vaccinated and the number of new infections decline, people look forward to more normalcy. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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December 30, 2020 Dalton - Robin Coffey, RN, with Whitfield Board of Health, holds a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at Whitfield County Health Department in Dalton on Wednesday, December 30, 2020. The North Georgia county now has the highest infection rate among Georgia’s 159 counties, with one in 10 Whitfield residents testing positive for COVID-19. Seeking to boost Republican turnout for Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs, President Donald Trump is planning to hold a rally Monday at the regional airport in Dalton, an event organizers expect will attract as many as 20,000 people. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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