The announcement took place on Tuesday in Atlanta at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The order comes after President Joe Biden ensured all Americans will be eligible for vaccination by May 1 at the latest. Georgia is the sixth state in the U.S. to allow all residents to be vaccinated, according to the New York Times.
Currently, people over 18 are authorized to receive any vaccine. People between the ages of 16 and 18 can only receive the Pfizer vaccine.
Where does Georgia stand?
According to Amber Schmidtke, a former Mercer School of Medicine professor who releases a daily digest of COVID-19 updates and health information, about 75% of Georgians will need to be fully vaccinated in order to approach herd immunity. That’s almost the entire population of Georgia over 16 years old.
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Covid-19 Vaccination Campaigns Become Dog-Eat-Dog Competition
February 2, 2021
Army Spc. Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2020. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando). Credit: Wikipedia
Covid-19 vaccination campaigns have turned into a dog-eat-dog competition internationally as shortages of the coronavirus vaccine have caused some nations to fend for themselves, trying to secure as many doses as possible.
Only a few weeks ago, the arrival of the first batches of the Covid-19 vaccine in each country was cause for jubilation. Today, the procurement of more doses has caused bickering among some.
British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca had promised in early January to supply 80 million doses of its vaccine to the European Union in the first quarter of 2021.