On Friday, Madam Vice President was bound for Atlanta, Georgia for her second We Can Do This," vaccination state tour, on Monday she was in Greenville, South Carolina. The tour helps with vaccine education and outreach efforts in order to reach President Biden's goal of getting 70 percent of Americans vaccinated by July 4.
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She arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where she was welcomed by the State's federal legislator Georgia's 5th congressional district Representative Congresswoman Nikema Williams, Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Atlanta's Mayor Keisha Bottoms.
1) She began her tour at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Church is a historic church in the black community located in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district where many US civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr had preached in the 1960s
During informal remarks to those who were being administered vaccines, the Vice President urged people, “These vaccines are safe and effective. It will save your life and the lives of people you love,” she also said “to get the word out” to help their friends and neighbours overcome obstacles to getting vaccinated like needing childcare and fear of needles.
She was accompanied by Congresswoman Nikema Williams, from right, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Senator Jon Ossoff, Senator Raphael Warnock, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Dr. Jayne Morgan, Cardiologist and the Executive Director of the COVID Task Force at the Piedmont Healthcare Corporation
2) After she departed for Clark Atlanta University, where she gave remarks at a COVID vaccination mobilization event. During her remarks, she said,“But there are some people, a lot of people might say, ‘I haven’t been vaccinated yet because I’m just not sure," she also acknowledged people's hesitancy, "It is OK to have questions," and she urged Atlantans to tell their friends and neighbours: “We can say with confidence the vaccines are safe, they are free and they are effective.”
Clark Atlanta University is a private Methodist historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. The University is the first HBCU in the Southern United States founded on September 19th 1865 as Atlanta University, it consolidated with Clark College to form Clark Atlanta University in 1988.
3) After giving the remarks she participated in a close room conversation on voting rights with community leaders.
