[the Health Commissioner] was vacationing in Greece during much of the controversy but has since returned to Tennessee
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“Nothing has been stopped permanently,” [the Health Commissioner] said during a press briefing. “We put a pause on many things, and then we have resumed all of those."
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As COVID-19 cases surge in parts of the U.S., Alabama Governor Kay Ivey told reporters, ‘It's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down’ https://t.co/Hvi4IqEaIs pic.twitter.com/Cwj6uN24Ee
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