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A healthcare worker prepares a Pfizer vaccine dose at a large-scale vaccination site at UNC's Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuesday, Jan. 19 2021. Major hospital systems across North Carolina will soon require workers to get a COVID-19 shot if they want to keep working at the facilities. The decision comes as state health officials warn of a rise in cases fueled by the delta variant. Communities with large unvaccinated populations have been particularly hard hit. The state Healthcare Association said on Thursday, July 22, 2021 that Duke Health, Atrium Health and many UNC Health hospitals will soon compel workers to get vaccinated. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)
Opinion: Now, more than ever, please go get vaccinated
nurse Jennifer Ulloa administers a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at the County's vaccination clinic in Whispering Pines, Calif. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP)
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Syringes loaded with Pfizer vaccine are ready to be used at an open COVID-19 vaccination site at the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium on the Jackson State University campus in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 27, 2021. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday, new recommendations that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging and also recommended indoor masks for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Opinion: The value of vaccination for us, others
Vaccination stations in a tent at the United Center COVID-19 vaccination site in Chicago on March 8, 2021. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
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Face mask requirements are posted at the various entrances at the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium where COVID-19 vaccinations are being offered on the Jackson State University campus in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 27, 2021. The university has similar signage posted throughout the campus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new recommendations that vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging and also recommended indoor masks for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Opinion: CDC revised rules because masks work
Jordan Ricks, 14, left, and her mother, Katie Ricks, are at their home Tuesday, July 27, 2021 and are pleasantly surprised to see that Druid Hills High School's freshman orientation requested students to list their preferred pronouns on their name tags. Jordan and her friends begin their freshman year in person at the high school next week. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Opinion: Gender pronouns at schools pave a path to acceptance
People look at a new historical marker remembering former Rep. John Lewis after it was unveiled Friday, July 16, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. Earlier this year, Nashville's Metro Council renamed a large portion of Fifth Avenue to Rep. John Lewis Way. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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The Federal Reserve will let a significant capital break for big banks expire at month’s end, denying requests from Wall Street that it extend the relief to mitigate any impacts to the financial system and the $21 trillion Treasury market. (Dreamstime/TNS)
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State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud, center, of Dearborn kisses his 83-year-old grandmother Fatima Hammoud of Dearborn Heights after she received her first round of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as his uncle Islamic Center of America Imam Sheikh Ahmad Hammoud, left, speaks to another man during a vaccination clinic as part of an outreach initiative by Henry Ford Health System at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn on Monday, March 8, 2021. (Ryan Garza/Detroit Free Press/TNS)
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September 25, 2020 Atlanta: As Friday’s rain tapered off, pooling water reflected passing motorists along Techwood Drive and 16th Street in Midtown Atlanta on Sept. 25, 2020. Friday’s morning commute in the rain made for some “nasty driving conditions,” WSB traffic reporter Mark Arum said. Several crashes impeded the rush hour flow making for long delays. This weekend will prove to be a welcome change from the rain with temperatures more typical of late September. Rain chances are 10% Saturday and 20% Sunday, and the projected high is 82 degrees on both days, according to the latest forecast. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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May 3, 2021 Atlanta: A growing memorial for a 15-year old The teen victim was identified by authorities as Diamond Johnson who was shot and killed over the weekend was placed near the the Glenwood Park shopping plaza. Atlanta police officials issued an impassioned statement after numerous weekend shootings left a 15-year-old girl and a 22-year-old man dead and others injured. “This past weekend, six incidents of gun violence left multiple people injured including a 15-year-old female who sadly lost her life,” the Atlanta Police Department said in a statement. “When these violent crimes occur, people look to law enforcement for answers. What many do not consider is that when people decide to resort to gun violence to resolve personal issues, this is not just a policing issue. These incidents involve people making poor decisions when resolving conflict.” The statement echoed a recent social media post that similarly urged people to quit shooting each other (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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Lovette Russell completes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race on July 4, 2021, just a few days after the second anniversary of her double lung transplant. Russell is battling scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that causes a tightening of the skin and connective tissue. (Courtesy of Lovette Russell)
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Traffic and parking limitations at trailheads are part of why planners say transit to trails is essential to keep up with growing interest from urbanites in outdoors activities. Many potential users of trails also do not have automobiles, thus limiting their access to the public sites. Credit: King County Parks
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Yellow crime tape blocks off an area near a mall parking area where two Baltimore city police officers were shot and a suspect was killed as a U.S. Marshals’ task force served a warrant, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Baltimore, Md. The police officers were taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center with injuries that aren’t thought to be life-threatening, county police spokeswoman Joy Stewart said.( (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Mundy’s Mill Middle School students hold signs during their walkout in Jonesboro on Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Students across the Metro Atlanta area held walkouts to protest gun violence as part of a nationwide demonstration. REANN HUBER/REANN.HUBER@AJC.COM
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Brandon Carver, an Uber Eats driver, says a homeowner in Buckhead threatened him with a shotgun when he tried to deliver food to the wrong house. Photo by Bill Torpy
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Edwin C. Atkins (left) points out the grave of an anonymous prisoner buried about 90 years ago near where the Georgia State Prison Farm once stood in Milledgeville. With him are state Rep. Rick Williams and Mary Esther Lord Smith. Photo by Bill Torpy
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A Cobb County SWAT team took a man into custody on Monday morning, July 19, 2021, following an hourslong standoff, police said. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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Muhammad Ali lights the torch to launch the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. (AJC file photo)
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Jordan Ricks, 14, left, and her mother, Katie Ricks, are at their home Tuesday, July 27, 2021 and are pleasantly surprised to see that Druid Hills High School's freshman orientation requested students to list their preferred pronouns on their name tags. Jordan and her friends begin their freshman year in person at the high school next week. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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Lovette Russell completes The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race on July 4, 2021, just a few days after the second anniversary of her double lung transplant. Russell is battling scleroderma, an autoimmune disease that causes a tightening of the skin and connective tissue. (Courtesy of Lovette Russell)
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July 15, 2021 Lawrenceville - Portrait of Lavell Hewitt, a new homeowner who was lucky enough to score a home after selling his house to Opendoor at a higher than market price, outside his new home in Lawrenceville on Thursday, July 15, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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03/22/2021 —Atlanta, Georgia — Speaker of the House David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) speaks during a presser held by Gov. Brian Kemp at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Monday, March 22, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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April 28, 2020 Gainesville - The top of the poultry monument is topped with a statue of a life-sized chicken at Poultry Park in Gainesville on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Mar. 9, 2017 - Atlanta - Sen. John Albers, R-Roswell, who is a volunteer firefighter, gives a fist pump to firefighters in the Senate gallery after the passage of House Bill 146, sponsored by state Rep. Micah Gravley, R-Douglasville, and backed by Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge. The Georgia Senate unanimously backed a measure Thursday offering firefighters special insurance policies to cover treatment of certain work-related cancers, bringing it a crucial step closer toward final passage. The 30th legislative day of the 2017 Georgia General Assembly. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
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