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The vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer received an emergency use authorization by the FDA just a few weeks ago. Now, Johnson and Johnson is asking to do the same. The company put in the request yesterday.
The reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, Georgia, where a classified military operation in the 1950s dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes – mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease – on Carver Village. "They didn't tell anybody, and it happened," said Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis. "And so that leaves some apprehension, especially when you have residents of that area who've been there since the '50s. And so my job as neighborhood president, and also as chairman of the County Commission, is to kind of calm the storm down to let them...
Savannah Morning News Black Americans are more hesitant than whites to take the COVID vaccine. Reasons for that hit close to home in Savannah, and include a classified military operation in the 1950s that dropped hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes — mosquitoes that many believe were infected with disease — on Carver Village. "They didn't tell anybody, and it happened," said Chatham County Commission Chairman Chester Ellis. "And so that leaves some apprehension, especially when you have residents of that area who've been there since the '50s. And so my job as neighborhood president, ...
Thursday, South Carolina’s Health Department confirmed that the first U.S. cases of the COVID-19 variant seen in South Africa, have been found in the state.
Savannah Morning News Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect that Memorial began vaccinating some seniors on Monday. Chatham's two big hospital systems are among the top local recipients of the COVID-19 vaccines, with Memorial receiving a cumulative 12,750 doses and St. Joseph's/Candler receiving 13,375, according to data posted Wednesday by the Georgia Department of Public Health. But St. Joseph's/Candler began vaccinating its 65-and-older a week earlier than Memorial and has done so with a proactive program that reaches out to patients. Each system first focused on distri...