GA Posts Highest One-Day Coronavirus Total In Four Months

ATLANTA, GA — Georgia reported more than 4,000 newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, its highest one-day total in about four months.

Although midweek numbers tend to be a little higher as statisticians catch up with weekend backlogs, Wednesday’s total of 4,094 new COVID-19 cases marks the first time that number has exceeded 4,000 since Aug. 8, just as the summer surge was subsiding.

Wednesday’s number also pushed the seven-day moving average of new cases to 2,607.3, the third time it’s passed 2,500 since last week. Before that, the last time the moving average exceeded 2,500 was on Aug. 15.

Wednesday’s total does not include the 1,800 antigen-positive tests, considered by Georgia’s health department to be “probable” coronavirus infections. Georgia has broken its antigen-positive tests out separately since November. Most other states include antigen-positive tests in their positive totals.

GEORGIA CORONAVIRUS NUMBERS FOR DEC. 2, 2020

The Georgia Department of Public Health in Atlanta reported a total of 428,980 confirmed cases of COVID-19 at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2. According to the health department’s website, that includes 4,094 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the last 24 hours. In addition, Georgia reported 1,800 new antigen-positive cases over the last 24 hours, which are considered to be probable cases of COVID-19.

Georgia has reported 8,830 deaths so far from COVID-19, with 35 more confirmed deaths recorded in the last 24 hours. Georgia also reported 737 probable deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. These probable deaths include fatalities with indirect evidence of COVID-19.

Georgia reported 35,326 hospitalizations — 263 more than the day before — and 6,569 admissions so far to intensive-care units. The percentage of ICU beds in use statewide increased to 84.8 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. These statistics do not include antigen-positive cases.

1. Fulton County: 38,101 cases
2. Gwinnett County: 37,488 cases
3. Cobb County: 26,906 cases
4. DeKalb County: 26,451 cases
5. Hall County: 12,657 cases
6. Chatham County: 10,755
7. Clayton County: 9,970
8. Richmond County: 9,638
9. Cherokee County: 9,346
10. Henry County: 7,837

Counties in or near metro Atlanta also continue to have the most deaths from COVID-19.

1. Fulton County: 671 deaths
2. Gwinnett County: 501 deaths
3. Cobb County: 499 deaths
4. DeKalb County: 440 deaths
5. Bibb County: 219 deaths
6. Chatham County: 203 deaths
7. Dougherty County: 199 deaths
8. Richmond County: 197 deaths
9. Hall County: 196 deaths
10. Clayton County: 195 deaths

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

Globally, nearly 64.3 million people have tested positive for COVID-19, and nearly 1.49 million people have died from it, Johns Hopkins University reported Wednesday.

In the United States, more than 13.8 million people have been infected and more than 272,000 people have died from COVID-19 as of Wednesday. 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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