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Lisa Gonzalez, DeKalb County Public Health Administrator, says it’s been confusing for many over 65 years olds just to register so the health department can notify them of their vaccine appointment. That’s because each county’s process is different. And it’s hard to make sure they know who to contact.
“Based on census data, we think that 65 and older [population] is around 13,500 in DeKalb County. And just within that group, we have about 12,000 registered. So that s pretty good, I think,” said Gonzalez.
But being registered doesn’t mean they’ll be vaccinated soon.
A Georgia city is replacing a Confederate monument with a statue of civil rights hero John Lewis
By Maria Morava and Saeed Ahmed, CNN
Updated 5:05 PM ET, Fri January 29, 2021
Crew members in Decatur, Georgia work to remove the Confederate monument brought down on June 19, 2020. (CNN)For 112 years, a 30-foot obelisk stood outside the courthouse grounds in the suburban Atlanta city of Decatur.
Erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it suggested the Civil War was about state s rights and Southern honor instead of the real root cause: slavery.
That structure was finally taken down last year. And in its place, officials now plan to erect a monument that honors the late John Lewis, a man who spent his entire life fighting for civil rights.
Georgia to build John Lewis tribute where Confederate monument once stood
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
Posted Jan 22, 2021
Hosea Williams and John Lewis leading marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday.Alabama Media Group
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By Tyler Estep The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
A tribute to late congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis could one day rise at the same DeKalb County, Ga. site where a Confederate monument stood for more than a century.
Last fall, DeKalb County Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson and Decatur Mayor Patti Garrett assembled a task force of some two dozen people to determine the best way to honor Lewis. Lewis, who died in July after a battle with pancreatic cancer, represented the 5th Congressional District, which includes a large portion of DeKalb County, for more than three decades.
It’s chaos as older people struggle to get a Covid-19 vaccine. Here is what you can do
Nancy Wilkinson knows her way around the internet. Retired from a career in IT support, the 66-year-old was unfazed by the hurdles her Decatur, Georgia, neighbors and friends faced as they struggled to schedule appointments for the Covid-19 vaccine.
Acting on a Sunday
4:30 a.m. email request to register, Wilkinson snagged an appointment last week for her wife, Susan, and herself just after Georgia announced that it was moving to Phase 1B of the phased rollout. That meant the vaccine would now be available to the state’s 1.4 million seniors 65 and over, including Wilkinson.