{"id":29478,"date":"2021-10-03T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=29478"},"modified":"2021-10-03T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T13:29:34","slug":"dekalb-vaccinates-2100-at-october-vaccination-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=29478","title":{"rendered":"DeKalb vaccinates 2,100 at October vaccination event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/DeKalb-County\">DeKalb County<\/a> vaccinated 2,100 people at a vaccination event at Stonecrest Mall Oct. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis has been a great day for DeKalb in our ongoing fight against COVID-19,\u201d DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond said. \u201cI thank all of our partners, employees and volunteers who contributed to this successful event<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thurmond passed out hats and t-shirts at the event promoting the &#8220;Get Vaxxed DeKalb&#8221; message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaccination event featured guest appearances by actor and comedian Chris Tucker, renowned gospel singer Dottie Peoples, singer Tony Terry and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vaccination event began at 8 a.m. and county officials had planned to end at 1 p.m., but extended the event until about 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dekalbvax.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dekalbvax.jpg 704w, https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/dekalbvax-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>DeKalb County Board of Health and DeKalb County Fire Rescue administered voluntary COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 12 years of age and older at The Mall at Stonecrest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone who received a vaccination also received a $100 prepaid debit card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MedCura Health also performed free COVID-19 tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=10]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeKalb County vaccinated 2,100 people at a vaccination event at Stonecrest Mall Oct. 2. \u201cThis has been a great day for DeKalb in our ongoing fight against COVID-19,\u201d DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond said. \u201cI thank all of our partners, employees and volunteers who contributed to this successful event Thurmond passed out hats and t-shirts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7286],"tags":[8481,8480,8487,8558,10345,8474,9156],"class_list":["post-29478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-dekalb-county","tag-michael-thurmond","tag-stonecrest","tag-sun","tag-vaccine","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}