McBath town hall COVID vaccine Archives

Cobb Commissioners Coronavirus meeting

U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath’s office said Wednesday she’ll be holding a virtual town hall meeting Thursday on the status of vaccine development for COVID-19.

The event will include presentations from medical experts, including Dr. Carlos del Rio and Dr. Colleen Kelley of Emory University and the Moderna vaccine trial at Grady, as well as Dr. Michelle Au, a physician and public health expert who was recently elected to the Georgia State Senate.

The town hall begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. You can dial into the event by calling (877) 299-5762 at the time of the event, or stream it live by going to mcbath.house.gov/live.

The meeting also will include a Q and A session after the presentations.

On Tuesday Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said the state could get its first shipments of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines within the next 7-10 days. They are expected to be given emergency approval for distribution by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Several hundred thousand doses will be sent to Georgia initially, with long-term care home residents and health care workers the first to receive them.

The Georgia Department of Public Health has more information here about the COVID-19 vaccines.

Georgia has more than 456,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 9,073 deaths as of Wednesday, according to Georgia DPH.

In Cobb County, there have been 28,790 confirmed cases and 509 deaths.