Primary Content Caption Shaw Industries offered vaccines to employees on night and weekend shifts, as well as to workers on daytime schedules. Credit: Georgia Health News Three rival Georgia carpet companies took a break from their floor-covering competition to focus on a foe that united them: COVID-19. Mohawk Industries, Shaw Industries and Engineered Floors collaborated on a COVID vaccination event for the workers at their Dalton-area plants recently. Almost 5,000 shots were administered over two weeks in the northwest Georgia city that’s called the “carpet capital of the world.” Caption Whitfield County, where Dalton is located, shows one of the highest COVID case rates in the state, as does Hall County, where many Latinos work in the poultry plants.