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Columbus Mayor Skip Henderson told News Leader 9
“Right now I don’t have any plans to reinstitute a mask mandate. When we put that on last year we didn’t have any weapons to combat this virus. Well we’ve got the weapon, we just need people to access it and use it.”
”We’ve seen a slight uptick in the number of people in this community. Probably about a 30-40% increase on a daily vaccinations rate. We were at about 100. Its gone up to about 140 to 150 a day. It’s not nearly quick enough to achieve herd immunity, but it is making some strides.”
Mayor Henderson added that about 34% of people in Muscogee County have had at least one dose of the COVID-19 shot.
