Covid cases back on the rise in Georgia

ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) -Georgia is seeing an increase in optimistic COVID assessments this summer time.

“I had by no means had it. I had prevented it by some means,” stated Cathy Hendrick of DeKalb County.

“I’ve by no means had it earlier than. In actual fact, I’ve gone via two years of instructing tons of of children day-after-day, didn’t get it, thought I wasn’t going to get it,” stated Kristy Shelton, who lives in Gwinnett.

However COVID got here coming for these church buddies.

“I’m an elementary pe trainer and I received it two days after college was out,” stated Shelton.

The most recent omicron offshoot, BA.5, has shortly develop into dominant within the US, in response to the CDC. Antibodies from vaccines and former COVID infections solely have restricted safety towards the offshoot.

“I’ve received the vaccine, the booster, so now I’m pondering pure immunity. I’ve received all of it,” stated Hendrick.

Georgia’s Division of Public Well being graphs present confirmed instances have been on the rise constantly since Could. Three months in the past, the state’s common of recent instances was round 250 a day. Now, there are 2 to three thousand individuals testing optimistic every day.

“It put me down for 3 good days-I couldn’t rise up off the coach,” stated Shelton.

Actual numbers are onerous to find out in response to medical consultants, as a result of many individuals are testing at dwelling or under no circumstances. The CDC has reported over 100,000 new instances a day on common. However infectious-disease consultants suppose that quantity may truly be as many as one million. However regardless of the rise in instances, this pressure isn’t seeking to be too harmful.

“It actually was not unhealthy in any respect,” stated Hendrick. “I examined. And naturally, I had COVID, however I went and ran, and I, you realize, labored within the yard.”

The nation hasn’t seen a spike in hospitalizations.

“I by no means ran a fever, I by no means actually felt that unhealthy. I simply needed to isolate, that was the onerous half,” stated Hendrick.

The highest 5 counties in Georgia with essentially the most COVID instances: Fulton, Gwinnett, Cobb, DeKalb, and Clayton Counties, aka the Metro space.

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