Georgia state suspends clinic’s Covid vaccine access after staff gave jabs to school workers

In an effort to get students back in school, a medical centre in rural northeast Georgia decided to let teachers, bus drivers and cafeteria workers from a local district sign up to get vaccinated.

The act ended up costing the facility in Elberton, Georgia, its vaccine supply all together.

On Thursday, the Medical Centre of Elberton announced that the Georgia Department of Public health would be suspending all shipments of the vaccine to the facility for six months.

The centre violated policies by inoculating people who were not eligible, the state agency said in a statement to WYFF, noting that the state's current phase only includes health-care workers, staff and residents at long-term care facilities, residents older than 65 and law enforcement.