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Arizona has removed a COVID-19 vaccine freeway message that a legislator compared with one that might be seen in communist China, but state officials say it wasn t because of any specific complaint and that they ll keep encouraging vaccinations. Our overarching point with these messages is clear and unchanged: Arizonans should get the COVID-19 vaccine, CJ Karamargin, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Ducey, wrote in an email Tuesday.
Messages on the digital billboards routinely rotate, he said.
Sen. Kelly Townsend, a Republican from Mesa, on Thursday posted a photo of the message in question. Want to return to normal? Get vaccinated, says the message the Arizona Department of Transportation s digital billboard she photographed.