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COVID vaccine rollout creeps ahead in Georgia
January 26, 2021
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House wants more state money for public health, nursing homes
January 26, 2021
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Georgia House member booted from floor for refusing to take COVID test
January 26, 2021
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South has high rate of unreported COVID deaths, study says
January 25, 2021
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Cobb resumes in-person classes despite teacher protests
January 25, 2021
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State lawmakers float raising tobacco tax
January 25, 2021
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Valdosta City Schools report more than 150 quarantines
January 25, 2021
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New human trafficking bills planned for legislative session
January 25, 2021
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Protests, backlash from Cobb teachers after three deaths
January 24, 2021
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The reality on COVID front lines
January 24, 2021
Johnny Peeples has practiced as a pediatrician in the central Georgia town of Eastman for 20 years. He’s there for the long haul. “I’m going to hang in there one way or another,’’ he says.
The economics of his practice, though, can appear daunting, especially with about two-thirds of his patients having government Medicaid or PeachCare insurance.
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My two recent exchanges with my health plan were bizarre at best – and irritating at worst. Let me first explain that I have good health insurance coverage. I won’t name the plan, but it’s one of the biggies, and while the policy keeps going up in price, it’s...
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Three years ago, Alan Judd and I wrote a series of articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that detailed numerous (and often deadly) problems in the state-run mental hospitals. We also reported that thousands of patients were discharged to homeless shelters, where they would be likely to cycle right back into the overcrowded, understaffed hospitals.
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