GA Posts Highest Coronavirus One-Day Total Since Summer Surge

ATLANTA, GA — Georgia reported more than 4,400 new cases of COVID-19 Thursday — the largest one-day total since July 24, the peak of the summer surge.

Also, Georgia’s seven-day moving average for new cases of COVID-19 now stands at 2,817.7, its highest point since Aug. 18.

Other statistics were similarly high: 1,628 new antigen-positive cases, 53 confirmed deaths and 245 hospitalizations

The latest report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force doesn’t mince words, referring to the COVID risk to Americans as “at a historic high.”

Click here for the complete text of the Nov. 29 White House report for Georgia, posted by Mercer University professor Amber Schmidtke, courtesy of J. Scott Trubey at The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

GEORGIA CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR DEC. 3, 2020

The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 433,353 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3. According to the health department’s website, that includes 4,419 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours. In addition, Georgia reported 1,628 new antigen-positive cases over the last 24 hours, which are considered to be probable cases of COVID-19.

Georgia has reported 8,879 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 53 more confirmed deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Georgia also reported 769 probable deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. These probable deaths include fatalities with indirect evidence of COVID-19.

Georgia reported 35,571 hospitalizations — 245 more than the day before — and 6,599 admissions so far to intensive-care units. The percentage of ICU beds in use statewide increased to 85.3 percent of capacity, but not all of these beds are being used by COVID-19 patients. About 31 percent of total ventilators available in Georgia are currently in use.

No information is available from Georgia about how many patients have recovered.

Counties in or near metro Atlanta and other metropolitan areas continue to have the highest number of COVID-19 positives, with Fulton County still in the lead. Of the top 10 counties, seven counties — six in metro Atlanta and one in Augusta — posted triple-digit increases. These statistics do not include antigen-positive cases.

1. Fulton County: 38,494 cases — 393 new
2. Gwinnett County: 37,875 cases — 387 new
3. Cobb County: 27,232 cases — 326 new
4. DeKalb County: 26,735 cases — 284 new
5. Hall County: 12,802 cases — 145 new
6. Chatham County: 10,824 — 69 new
7. Clayton County: 10,052 — 82 new
8. Richmond County: 9,789 — 151 new
9. Cherokee County: 9,476 — 130 new
10. Henry County: 7,925 — 88 new

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19. Also, Cobb County hit a milestone Thursday, surpassing 500 deaths total from COVID-19 for the first time.

1. Fulton County: 675 deaths — 4 new
2. Gwinnett County: 506 deaths — 5 new
3. Cobb County: 501 deaths — 2 new
4. DeKalb County: 444 deaths — 4 new
5. Bibb County: 220 deaths — 1 new
6. Chatham County: 203 deaths
7. Dougherty County: 199 deaths
8. Clayton County: 197 deaths — 2 new
9. Richmond County: 197 deaths
10. Hall County: 196 deaths

All Georgia statistics are available on the state's COVID-19 website.

Globally, nearly 65 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and more than 1.5 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Thursday.

In the United States, more than 14 million people have been infected and more than 275,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Thursday. The U.S. has only about 4 percent of the world's population but more confirmed cases and deaths than any other country.

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