Teachers and other school employees are starting to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Hart County Charter System is working with the Hart County Health Department to vaccinate its employees and began administering vaccines to employees this week. Teachers and other staff who requested the Moderna vaccine can go to Flat Shoals Baptist Church, where the health department has set up a temporary vaccination clinic, Monday through Thursday this week.
School employees who requested the Johnson and Johnson vaccine can be vaccinated by school nurses on March 18 at each school.
More than 1,000 vaccines have been administered in Hart County over the past week as the total number of inoculations hit 5,639 on Monday, March 9, according to Department of Public Health data.
On Friday, March 5, 349 vaccines were administered in Hart County, marking a new daily record for the county. The vaccination rate rose again this week to 22,111 per 100,000 people in Hart County, on par with the statewide rate.
Across Georgia, 2,360,595 folks have now received at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the DPH.
Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Saturday that according to American Community Survey population estimates, with a total of 1.4 million people older than 65, Georgia has vaccinated 64 percent of its senior population. The national average of seniors receiving at least one dose, according to the CDC and American Community Survey data, is 58 percent.
“Georgia continues to beat the national average when it comes to vaccinating our most vulnerable citizens,” Kemp said. “Due to those over the age of 65 accounting for 77 percent of Georgia deaths due to COVID-19, our vaccination distribution plan prioritized them early - before the CDC recommended doing so — in order to save more lives with the limited doses the state received from the federal government.
To schedule a vaccination appointment with the health department go to District 2 Public Health’s website at phdistrict2.org, or call 1-888-426-5073. Patients must meet the tier 1A requirements, which includes folks 65 years old or older and their caregivers, first responders, healthcare workers and long-term care facility residents and staff to schedule an appointment.
The number of cases of COVID-19 reported in Hart County over the past two weeks was at 34 on Monday, significantly lower than the numbers reported at the height of the local surge.
The death toll from the disease in Hart County has remained at 35, with 15 additional deaths listed as “probable,” for the past two weeks.
In total, 1,663 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Hart County since the DPH began tracking the data.
Statewide, 15,640 from COVID-19 have been reported by the DPH. More than 829,000 cases have been reported in Georgia since the DPH began tracking the data.
