Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 21

Good morning! I’m back.

• The “test-to-stay” protocol that is successfully used in Marietta City Schools may be a model for school systems throughout the United States.
• A 20-foot-tall bronze statue of Chief Tomochichi, the Yamacraw chief who granted James Oglethorpe permission to settle and found what is now the city of Savannah, was placed in its temporary home near Atlanta Station before it moves to its ultimate location at Rodney Cook, Sr. Park in Vine City.
• More than two dozen teachers and school staff from across Georgia have died of COVID-19 since the start of the school year.
• Most recently, a high school music director died last week following a lengthy hospitalization with the virus.
• Pfizer announced very promising data from the study of the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5-11 and Georgia parents are ready.
• Crime is the issue in the Atlanta mayoral race. Here’s how six leading mayoral candidates would address the crisis.
• While not nearly as accessible and affective as the COVID-19 vaccines, which reduce your risk of hospitalization with the virus by more than 95%, monoclonal antibodies are an effective treatment for unvaccinated, high-risk COVID-19 patients and reduce hospitalization by 70%, Georgia will soon be receiving a smaller supply – leading to concerns that the hospitalization rate may continue to increase.