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Pfizer and BioNTech are asking the government to allow use of their COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11, which Atlanta's Emory University played a key role in.
More than a thousand Afghan refugees will be housed in Georgia as they escape the Taliban takeover in their home country.
Senator Jon Ossoff will tour Central and Southeast Georgia with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm today.
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