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ELIZABETHTON — The Carter County Health Department administered the first vaccinations with the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19 on Monday, providing shots to several first responders. “This is another weapon in our arsenal to defeat the pandemic,” Caroline Hurt, director of the Carter County and Johnson County Health departments, said. The Tennessee Department of Health had announced last week that the Moderna vaccines would be shipped to the county health departments this week, and Hurt knew the vaccines would be coming to the Washington, Unicoi and Carter health departments on Monday. “We received our shipment about 10:45 a.m.,” Hurt said. Hurt wasted no time in puttingthe vaccines to work. Several top priority candidates were assembled in the Truman Clark Annex of the Carter County Health Department. Hurt said those included Elizabethton Police Chief Jason Shaw, some firefighters from the Elizabethton Fire Department, some members of the Carter County Resc

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