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News Articles: Georgia Department of Health

Julia Adele Callahan gets ready to sort through her paper WIC vouchers at the checkout line at a grocery store in Macon, Georgia, on August 17, 2022. A 2021 nationwide study in the Journal of the American Medical Association saw WIC participation increase 8% over three years in places that implemented electronic benefits.

Georgia is the last state to take the hassle out of food benefits for millions of women and children

In a nationwide switch to make WIC paperless, every participant in Georgia will have a debit card with electronic benefits by the end of the year. 

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Nekesha Murphy (left) gets her COVID-19 vaccine from RN Ginn Holder at the University Health Center.

Georgia's BA-2 subvariant COVID cases are 'more of a ripple than a wave,' official says

The overarching impact of vaccination, boosting and natural immunity from infection is that hospitalization numbers are now as low, if not lower than, right before last July’s delta wave, Georgia Department of Health epidemiologist Dr. Cherie Drenzek said. 

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Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show overdose deaths fell 5% in 2018.

Georgia Leaders Remain 'Cautiously Optimistic' After Nationwide Overdose Deaths Fall 5% In 2018

This week the federal government said it's encouraged by a decline in overdose deaths from opioids. But, while the Georgia Department of Public Health...

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Brenda Fitzgerald discusses the Georgia Department of Public Health's collaboration with Hartsfield-Jackson as Miguel Southwell, the airport's general manager, looks on.

Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Joins Fight Against Spread Of Zika Virus

Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is joining the fight against the Zika virus. Public health officials say the world's busiest airport...

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