Public schools won’t be able to require masks in classrooms following executive order expected from Governor Brian Kemp. “The time for mandates is over,” Kemp told an interviewer on Fox News. Kemp has navigated challenging economic and medical conditions as the pandemic evolved over the last year. Read the full article: 11Alive.com
11Alive’s investigative team, The Reveal, found dozens of Georgia nursing homes that received bonus money for doing well protecting residents from COVID-19, while also fining them for safety violations. Records show a lot of the violations were related directly to infection control. Read the full article: 11Alive.com
Some groups in Atlanta are being warned to use caution when planning their outdoor activities through Tuesday due to air quality concerns. Data from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources has placed the city under a Code Orange air quality advisory for both Monday and Tuesday, meaning it may be unhealthy for “sensitive groups.” Read the…
Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta are looking to enroll children between the ages of 6 months and 12 years old for a clinical trial of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. The trial will use the same vaccine authorized in December for use with all adults in the U.S., under an emergency use authorization from the U.S….
Scientists are currently testing more than 100 water treatment plants in North Georgia for a group of chemicals linked to cancer and other serious illnesses. It’s part of a massive water monitoring program initiated earlier this year by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division targeting perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS for short.
Families of children who have been killed in metro Atlanta are fed up. On Sunday, they came together for a demonstration in downtown Atlanta calling for city leaders to take action. Georgette Morton and others like her came together to get their message out. “The parents are frustrated that their children are getting killed,” she…
Every couple about to have a baby has a plan. You have bags packed, you have the route to the hospital memorized – all to make sure everything goes smoothly. For Jessica and Joe, their plan fell apart pretty fast. But fortunately for them, in a scene straight out of the movies, a good Samaritan was…
When Rynli was 2 months old, she was left outside a hospital in China by her biological parents with a note explaining that she had a very serious heart condition and they had run out of funds to get her the medical care she needed. She was adopted by Tamara and Justin Harris when she…
Georgia will once again be offering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine following the newly released recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday. Both the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration approved lifting a “pause” on the vaccine that was put in place as doctors and scientists investigated an extremely rare…
Eight mass-vaccination sites set up by Georgia state authorities in February and run by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security are set to cease operating next month when their contracts expire. GEMA confirmed with 11Alive that there is no plan to renew contracts to keep the sites running, including the one at the Delta Air Lines Museum in…