The city of Abilene is anticipating an increase in individuals seeking COVID-19 vaccinations as eligibility requirements shift to those age 50 and older. That opens it up to a new group of people, said Annette Lerma, director of the Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District. You do not have to have any other qualifying condition, you just have to be at least 50 years old.
Those individuals are now eligible to register via the city s system at abilenetx.gov/vaccineschedule. We ve actually changed the wording for the criteria to include 50, Lerma said. . So we hope that will increase the number of people we re reaching.
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A grassroots effort to make free food available in a public refrigerator has met resistance from city health officials.
Abilene Community Fridge, which seeks to provide meals and food options for people facing food insecurity or hunger, was forced to reduce its supplies after a health department official threatened its operation. It s a give-what-you-can-take-what-you-need kind of system, organizer Reagan Van Coutren said about how the public could access the brightly painted, stocked refrigerator in a covered shelter outside Howard Radio at 4235 N. First St.
Van Coutren said the city health official late Thursday afternoon made her remove the perishable food from inside the fridge.
Coronavirus (Source: WALB) By Jamie Worsley | March 11, 2021 at 6:00 PM EST - Updated March 11 at 6:00 PM
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - One year ago, cases of the coronavirus began to emerge in the Southwest Georgia Public Health District (SWHD).
Looking back, Dr. Charles Ruis with the Southwest Public Health District said these cases were just the beginning of the pandemic in our area, and the start of our very own “Ground Zero.”
“It was the second week of March, early in the second week of March, we realized that someone had been an inpatient at Phoebe, who had had COVID. That was a huge shock. But that was just the beginning of many shockwaves that would come to us,” said Ruis.
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Mar 11, 2021
ALBANY, Ga. âThe Southwest Public Health District has received an allotment of Johnson & Johnsonâs COVID-19 vaccines. Public health leadership is encouraging those who currently qualify to receive a vaccine to consider the benefits of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a âone and doneâ option.
Public health officials caution the public against directly comparing the study results from Johnson & Johnson with those from Moderna and Pfizer because of the timing of the research, the public health district said in a press release. Pfizer and Moderna vaccine studies occurred predominantly during the summer before any of the variants were really a factor.Â