One Year After Georgia’s First COVID-19 Cases, NPR Analysis Ranks The State Last In First Vaccine Doses

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March 2nd, 2021

At the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, a woman gets a COVID-19 shot Feb. 22 at a mass vaccination site, one of four sites located in Georgia. According to an analysis from NPR, Georgia ranks at the bottom among states that have administered the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

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It’s been one year since the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Georgia. 

Since then, more than 15,000 Georgians have died from complications of the virus, and nearly 820,000 cases have been confirmed. 

But one year on, it’s the state’s vaccine distribution progress that has taken center stage because of the vaccines’ crucial role in ending the pandemic. 

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