A state website showed a record-shattering single-day increase in COVID-19 cases Thursday, with nearly 8,000 new cases.
The total – 7,950 – includes positives from rapid antigen tests. It easily surpassed the previous one-day record of new cases of 6,601 reported Friday.
“We are in a really bad spot,’’ said Amber Schmidtke, whose Daily Digest tracks COVID-19 in Georgia.
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