Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is again urging patience among people waiting to be vaccinated against the coronavirus even as he threatens to take vaccines away from large hospital systems that his administration says aren’t moving fast enough to administer the shots.
“If this issue continues, the state will take possession of those doses and ensure that vaccinations continue,” Kemp told reporters. “And if it takes me firing up my pickup truck and doing it myself, so be it.”
The Republican governor made the statements Tuesday as infections and hospitalizations ran at record levels and more school systems pulled back from in-person instruction.
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