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By Carlton Fletcher
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While summer winds down, some of the hard-working pollinators are still on the job, like this butterfly checking out a lemon tree in Albany.

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With a decrease of 87% since the omicron surge peak in late January and a 30% decrease in the last week, officials with Phoebe Putney Health System announced they had closed the system’s last remaining COVID-19 units at Phoebe North.

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The new modular hospital facility built on the Phoebe North campus in Albany was built in less than three weeks.

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Staff, from left, May Ajan, Tamilia Lowery and Jordan Mathis get ready for the first COVID-19 patients at the state-run modular hospital unit on the Phoebe North campus in Albany Wednesday.

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All necessary equipment is in place in the 24-bed modular unit opened on the Phoebe North campus Wednesday to treat COVID-19 patients.

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Equipment vital to the protection of medical staff is prepared for use at the COVID-19 modular hospital unit that opened on the Phoebe North campus in Albany Wednesday.

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IT Project Manager Keith Hobbs checks out a computer unit at the modular hospital unit on the Phoebe North campus Wednesday.

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