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January 4, 2022 Atlanta - Georgia Tech students and employees are getting tested for COVID-19 at Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Building on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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School administrators at Norcross Elementary School welcome students on Jan. 10, 2022. Across Georgia, schools are determined to keep their doors open amid high coronavirus rates that have led to staffing shortages. (Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Registered nurse Kelli Clayton administers a COVID-19 vaccine during an event Saturday morning, Jan. 16, 2021, for Fulton County School employees and their spouses who are 65 and older at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Photo: Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Students arrive at Norcross Elementary School on Jan. 10, 2022. Across Georgia, schools are determined to keep their doors open amid high coronavirus rates that have led to staffing shortages. (Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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January 4, 2022 Atlanta - Georgia Tech students and employees are getting tested for COVID-19 at Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Building on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Registered nurse Kelli Clayton administers a COVID-19 vaccine during an event Saturday morning, Jan. 16, 2021, for Fulton County School employees and their spouses who are 65 and older at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. (Photo: Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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People wait outside of the emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital. Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health stressed to the public that hospital emergency rooms should not be used to seek COVID-19 testing unless people are experiencing severe COVID-19 symptoms. Thursday, December 30, 2021. Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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People wait outside of the emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital. Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health stressed to the public that hospital emergency rooms should not be used to seek COVID-19 testing unless people are experiencing severe COVID-19 symptoms. Thursday, December 30, 2021. Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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211229-Atlanta-Gov. Brian Kemp holds a press conference to talk about Covid in Georgia on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Craig Geter, center, waits in line for COVID testing at the Fulton County Center for Health and Rehabilitation on Dec. 28, 2021. Geter said he was getting tested because he was having some cold symptoms and had been turned away from two other testing sites after waiting in line because he didn’t have an appointment. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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211221-DECATUR-Janai Kornegay, center, helps customers while working at the Viral Solutions drive-through COVID testing site in Decatur on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. The line for testing stretched more than a block as people prepare for Christmas travel. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Shawn Kuhn, a University of Georgia senior, died Monday from complications from COVID-19. A family member said he was fully vaccinated for COVID-19. PHOTO CREDIT: Watson & Hunt Funeral Home.
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