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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 16, 2020

With COVID-19 surging across the state, House Minority Leader Karen Camper says the legislature should concentrate on controlling the virus and disseminating a vaccine when it convenes in January, Tennessee Lookout reports. Gov. Bill Lee’s administration already has a vaccine distribution plan on the Department of Health website, and the governor is set to hold a briefing tomorrow as doses are distributed across the state. But with the rise in numbers, Camper contends state lawmakers should be involved in the process. Republican leaders, by contrast, say they are satisfied with the state’s distribution plan, which is based on CDC guidelines. Late today, Dr. William Polk, a Nashville surgeon, received the first dose of the vaccine in the state, the Commercial Appeal reports. Polk received the dose at Clinical Research Associates, a company that has been collecting data as part of the Pfizer clinical trial.