Coronavirus

Georgia Tech nurse Melanie Thomas administers a COVID-19 vaccine shot to student Grayson Prince at its Exhibition Hall on July 20, 2021. The school has been doing vaccinations on Tuesdays this summer for students and employees. (Eric Stirgus / estirgus@ajc.com)

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Wyatt Gibson, 5, passed away July 16, 2021 after contracting COVID-19, according to a GoFundMe page and his obituary. The boy lived in Calhoun, and his father Wes is a Whitfield County sheriff's deputy. (Photo: GoFundMe)

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Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Lisa Herring, left, and board Chairman Jason Esteves are shown in a file photo from the district's vaccination event on March 24, 2021. Curtis Compton / AJC FILE PHOTO

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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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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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The day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for adolescent children, pediatrician scientists at Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta answered questions about the vaccine in an online press event. Seen here, Dr. Andi Shane, MD, chief of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and medical director of infectious disease at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Dr. Evan Anderson, MD, professor of medicine and pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, participate in the event Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (Screenshots taken by Ariel Hart / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.)

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In this July 18 photo, a man who used a fake identity arrives at the Sultan Babullah airport in Ternate, Indonesia. The man with the coronavirus boarded a domestic flight disguised as his wife, wearing a niqab covering his face and carrying fake IDs and a negative PCR test result. He was arrested upon landing and tested positive for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Harmoko)

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November 30, 2018 Atlanta - Amanda Marmins, a volunteer at Souper Jenny, finishes the preparation for one box of soup that will help feed kids in the metro area. RYON HORNE / RHORNE@AJC.COM

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July 2, 2020 Atlanta - Travelers wearing face masks make their way at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020. As passenger traffic begins to increase for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) officials hosted an informational media briefing to highlight new COVID-19 safety measures. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Riley Erickson (foreground), site manager with CORE, and Jim Zvikas, R.N., start packing up after waiting for the last scheduled client showing up at North Springs United Methodist Church in Sandy Springs on July 8, 2021. The scheduled client ended up not showing up. There was only one person got vaccinated today at this vaccine site, according to a site manager with CORE, Riley Erickson. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Atlanta Matheson helps tie her husband Charles Matheson’s hospital gown at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) in Gainesville earlier this week. Visiting restrictions are slowly being eased at the hospital, with patients being allowed an additional two visitors. Charles Matheson is in the hospital after his lungs collapsed after recovering from COVID-19. (Christine Tannous / christine.tannous@ajc.com)

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Roger Folsom (left), vice chairman, and Frank W. Berry, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Health (DCH), confer during a Georgia Department of Community Health board meeting in Atlanta in August. At that point Georgia had failed to perform targeted infection control inspections of hospitals that were requested by the federal government as a result of the pandemic. (PHOTO by Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Sandi Thurber (center), social service director at Northside Gwinnett Extended Care Center, chats with Tom Pendergrass as he visits with his friend and resident Cledith Perrigan at the Lawrenceville facility. (Phil Skinner for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Bill Collins holds the hand of his mother, Edith Collins, as Candice Wade (right), a registered nurse, checks on her at the cardiovascular unit of the Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Updated visitation guidelines are displayed at North Patient Tower of Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Nurse Ashley Tolisano prepares a vile with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in March at a DeKalb Board of Health COVID-19 vaccination site at the Doraville MARTA. About 24% of respondents to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll said they did not plan to get a vaccination against COVID-19. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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Atlanta restauranteur Charlie Niyomkul was friends with golfer Vijay Singh. Niyomkul and his wife prepared the champion's dinner at the Masters Tournament for Singh after the golfer won in 2000. RICH ADDICKS/STAFF

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Henry County Commissioner Gary Barham died Tuesday from complications related to COVID-19.

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Antoine Hodge, 38, was an opera singer at New York’s Met Opera and died from the coronavirus.

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Billy Eugene Moss was a beloved cobbler who operated the Canton Shoe Repair for 66 years. Moss, 87, died from a combination of COVID-19, kidney failure and other causes last month. A framed photograph is displayed at the store's cashier desk next to one of his boots. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Wilma Gail Bowen, 70, a nurse at Hiram Elementary School, died on Thanksgiving Day hours after her husband of five decades, Willard Daniel Bowen, 73. Their daughter, Karen Bowen Kirby, said they both had COVID-19.

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