According to the Georgia Department of Public Health, at least 20 Georgians have died of the flu since September, and more than 900 people in the metro Atlanta area have been put in the hospital.
Georgia’s flu rate showed high levels of activity for four straight weeks before it fell significantly at the beginning of January, but now it’s back up again to a high intensity level.
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