The Georgia Department of Health has confirmed more than 31,000 of coronavirus cases and 1,336 deaths statewide.
And public health experts say that as Georgia axes shelter-in-place precautions and continues to reopen the economy, those numbers are going to keep climbing.
A new report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projects nearly 5,000 COVID-19 deaths statewide by August.
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