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Five months after COVID vaccines rolled out in Chatham County and an initial shortage made for long lines at the local health department in January and February, supply is no longer a problem. But demand is. In general, our vaccine demand has fallen down significantly, said Dr. Lawton Davis, director of the eight-county Coastal Health District. We re now averaging a little over 200 a day here in Chatham County, where we were sometimes over 1,000 a day. The Georgia Department of Public Health s Vaccine Dashboard indicates the rate of full vaccination in Chatham County is 29%. In Bryan it s 27% and in Effingham, 20%. Statewide, women have outpaced men by a margin of about 427,000 in getting vaccinated with at least one dose. Older people, who were offered the vaccine beginning in January, have much higher vaccination rates than do younger people. Over 91% of Georgians aged 65 or older have received at least one dose. ....