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Former President Jimmy Carter to get COVID-19 vaccine

Former President Jimmy Carter helps position an exterior wall while working on a Habitat for Humanity build in 2015 in Memphis. Ben Gray / bgray@ajc.com

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Former President Jimmy Carter helps position an exterior wall while working on a Habitat for Humanity build in 2015 in Memphis. Ben Gray / bgray@ajc.com
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Dec 18, 2020

Former President Jimmy Carter will be getting a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Jimmy Carter Center announced in a tweet Thursday night: “After consulting with his doctors, President Carter is looking forward to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to him.”

Earlier this month, the 96-year-old Carter and his wife Rosalynn said that they were in full support of COVID-19 vaccine efforts and encourage everyone who was eligible to get immunized as soon as it became available.

Carter joins former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama in promising to get the vaccination to instill confidence in the process that many people are still doubtful of.

More than 300,000 people in the United States have died from the coronavirus.

More than 3,600 people died from the virus on Wednesday.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to get his first Covid-19 vaccination early next week and plans to get his shot in public.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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