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Georgia public health board stopped meetings during pandemic May 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ATLANTA (AP) The advisory board for Georgia’s public health agency stopped holding meetings for more than a year during the coronavirus pandemic a move that its leaders say was necessary to focus on the emergency response, though critics contend it made the agency less transparent at a time of crisis. The board of physicians and health professionals that advises the Georgia Department of Public Health held its last meeting Feb. 11, 2020, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday. That was before the first COVID-19 infections were confirmed in Georgia. The advisory board, which typically met monthly prior to the pandemic, still hasn’t held a public meeting more than 15 months later. During that time, the virus has killed more than 17,800 people in Georgia and sickened more than 892,000.

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