ATLANTA — Georgia is throwing money and manpower at the latest surge in coronavirus.
Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday that the state will spend $100 million to put up to 1,000 additional health-care workers on the job battling the spike in COVID-19 cases driven by the omicron variant.
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