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Rural community in shock after Georgia health officials raid clinic vaccinating teachers Stephanie Gosk and Laura Strickler and Lisa Cavazuti and Corky Siemaszko ELBERTON, Georgia A small Georgia city was still in shock Friday, days after state health workers raided the busiest medical clinic in the county and seized its Covid-19 vaccine supply because staffers had given doses to teachers. Some 470 shots of the Pfizer vaccine were confiscated from the Medical Center of Elberton, a private clinic that had been the largest provider of vaccinations in Elbert County, leaving behind just enough medicine to guarantee second doses to people who have already been inoculated. ....
Updated: 5:50 PM EST Feb 3, 2021 Allen Devlin According to the Medical Center of Elberton, about 470 doses of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine were seized by the Georgia Department of Public Health Tuesday morning. According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, the vials were taken and reallocated to other vaccine providers across the county as additional repercussions against the Medical Center for vaccinating teachers in the Elbert County Public School system ahead of schedule. This is in addition to a six-month suspension on vaccine allotments to the Medical Center that was originally announced last week. Vaccine providers must adhere to the current phase of vaccination to ensure that the state s limited vaccine supply is going to those most at risk, officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health said in regard to the confiscation. The GDPH says that all of the vaccines picked up were the ones that were not required for second doses. The v ....