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Educators attend Gwinnett County Public Schools’ annual new teacher orientation at Gas South Convention Center on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. As a new school year begins, teachers across metro Atlanta will face challenges, including new laws, safety concerns and a surge in COVID-19 cases. (Natrice Miller/natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Opinion: Georgia schools open amid COVID, politics and safety concerns
Masked and unmasked passengers sit with their luggage at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Natrice Miller/natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Inside City Hall: Atlanta’s back in the COVID Red Zone
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Coronavirus in Georgia: COVID-19 Dashboard
School supplies and health screenings will be offered at two events in Powder Springs on July 31. (Courtesy of Powder Springs)

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Masked and unmasked passengers walk through security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Natrice Miller/natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Mary Ann Neilsen holds her last Paxlovid pills while recovering from COVID-19 in Santa Barara, Calif., on Jan. 6, 2022. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)

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Xavier James, 11, gets ready to receive a COVID-19 shot as his mother takes his photograph during a vaccine event at Atlanta City Hall on June 25, 2022. Steve Schaefer / steve.schaefer@ajc.com

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Vaccine uptake slow as cases among youngest children rise
More vaccinated and boosted hospitalized with COVID

More of the vaccinated and boosted landing in hospital with COVID-19
Vaccines, while not perfect, will reduce the chances you could transmit the virus to someone who can’t afford to get it. (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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A group demonstrated Thursday, July 21, 2022, against a mask requirement for employees of Gwinnett County Public Schools. Gwinnett is at high risk for community transmission of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That triggered the district mask requirement. (Josh Reyes / Josh.Reyes@ajc.com)

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Xavier James, 11, gets ready to receive a COVID-19 shot as his mother takes his photograph during a vaccine event at Atlanta City Hall on June 25, 2022. Steve Schaefer / steve.schaefer@ajc.com

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July 2, 2020 Atlanta - Travelers wearing face masks make their way at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Thursday, July 2, 2020. As passenger traffic begins to increase for the Fourth of July holiday weekend, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) officials hosted an informational media briefing to highlight new COVID-19 safety measures. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Emily Stevens, a nurse, on her day off in Gainesville. Stevens left her previous job as a staff ER nurse in Gainesville, where she worked some of the worst shifts in the pandemic. She joined an agency as a "traveler," or contract nurse, and is now an ER nurse in Duluth. She is run less ragged by her shifts, and feels she can work on restoring her health now on her days off. (PHOTO by Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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In this file photo, Grady Hospital healthcare workers arrive for work. Grady reports, 99% of its staff is vaccinated. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Local hospitals begin enforcing medical worker vaccine mandates
January 25, 2022 Braselton - Registered nurse Jordan Davis puts on PPE before she enters to see her patient at the Intensive Care Unit of Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Braselton on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

Inside a Georgia hospital’s ICU, medical staff wages war against omicron
At the Northeast Georgia Medical Center’s Braselton hospital, all 24 hospital beds in the intensive care unit are filled, 18 of them with COVID-19 patients. The hospital granted an AJC photographer access to the ICU to witness how COVID-19 is still battering hospital systems and health care workers. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Photos: Inside an ICU during the omicron outbreak
COVID-19 is causing the worst worker shortage in a generation in Georgia's nursing homes, and the shortages are sending waves of disruption throughout the state’s health system. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Nursing homes struggle as omicron depletes staff, sickens residents
(PHOTO by John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Georgia hospitals warn of ripple effects from COVID surge
People wait outside of the emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital. Officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health stressed to the public that hospital emergency rooms should not be used to seek COVID-19 testing unless people are experiencing severe COVID-19 symptoms. Thursday, December 30, 2021. Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Shawn Kuhn, a University of Georgia senior, died Monday from complications from COVID-19. A family member said he was fully vaccinated for COVID-19. PHOTO CREDIT: Watson & Hunt Funeral Home.

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