This story was originally published at Georgia Health News.
A ‘‘data dump’’ of prison COVID-19 cases appears to have lifted a southeast Georgia county into the top position nationally on a New York Times hot spot list for the disease.
The county, Wheeler, is home to a large state prison.
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