ATHENS — Tara Graham recently emerged from the side entrance of the Athens-Clarke County Courthouse ready to face one of two major public health threats looming this fall.
Graham, a clerk in the county Magistrate Court, had just received her flu shot from a joint clinic run by the University of Georgia Health Center and the College of Pharmacy. That was nothing unusual for Graham, who was masked as she made the short walk from the court exit to the parking deck. She said she gets her flu vaccine every year.
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