Coronavirus Updates: Georgia Sees Dramatic Rise In Hospitalized COVID-19 patients

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July 9th, 2020

Statewide, health officials released data Wednesday showing that 82% of Georgia’s critical care beds are in use, although not every patient in a critical care bed has COVID-19.

Eric Gay / Associated Press

With 82% of Georgia’s critical care beds now in use, health systems across the state say they’re quickly nearing capacity as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise.

In the Albany area, one of the state’s hardest-hit regions early on in the virus’s spread, hospitalizations are climbing dramatically once again, Phoebe Putney Health System CEO Scott Steiner said Thursday.

In all of June, 47 COVID-19 patients were admitted to the hospital in Albany in southwest Georgia, Steiner said. In just the first eight days of July, 37 have already been admitted.

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