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Dr Hebah Pranckun wearing a Wellstar lab coat

Health Care December 3, 2021

A Wellstar pediatrician talks about vaccination of children 5-11

Wellstar Health System opened two pediatric COVID-19 vaccination centers recently, at their health parks in Acworth and East Cobb. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech…

coronavirus image -- a white sphere with red corona spikes emanating outward

Health Care November 30, 2021

Wellstar opens pediatric COVID-19 vaccination centers in Acworth and East Cobb

Wellstar Health System announced in a press release that they have opened two pediatric COVID-19 vaccination centers in Cobb County: Acworth Health Park at 4550 Cobb Pkwy N NW, Acworth,…

Health Care November 28, 2021

What is the Omicron variant of COVID-19?

by Larry F. Johnson [The Cobb County Courier has a general policy of sticking tightly to local news coverage, but there are some issues (e.g. immigration, COVID-19) that directly impact…

Health Care November 27, 2021

CDC issues statement on the Omicron variant

The CDC issued a press release yesterday on the recently discovered Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. The press release reads as follows: On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified a…

Health Care November 26, 2021

Alarm spreads as new “highly mutated” COVID variant arises

[The Cobb County Courier has a general policy of sticking tightly to local news coverage, but there are some issues (e.g. immigration, COVID-19) that directly impact the county but have…

Health Care November 25, 2021

CDC: COVID transmission remains high and cases are increasing

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) tweeted yesterday afternoon that COVID transmission in the U.S. remains high, and that cases increased by 9.7 percent over the past week. The #COVID19…

Health Care November 20, 2021

Cobb’s COVID rate shows an uptick among school-aged residents

After a nearly unbroken drop in COVID cases among Cobb County’s school-aged population, the cases rate showed an increase in both the 0-4 preschool age group and the public-school aged…

chart showing that staffing levels at nursing homes and assisted living facilities have not rebounded since the beginning of the pandemic

Health Care November 13, 2021

Nursing home and assisted living organization sounds alert about staffing shortages

Despite the widely publicized school tax exemption for seniors in Cobb County, and despite the number of Residential Senior Living ((RSL) projects that come before the Planning Commission and Board…

Health Care November 6, 2021

School-aged COVID case rate in Cobb continues to decline

With a couple of ups and downs, we’ve settled back into the downward trend in the schooled-aged rate of COVID-19 in Cobb County, according to figures from the Georgia Department…

Health Care November 3, 2021

Parents relieved as pediatric vaccinations for ages 5-11 begin

By Rebecca Gaunt The only people possibly cheering louder than Atlanta Braves fans Tuesday night were the parents who have been impatiently waiting for approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for…

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