Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Wednesday that the state will spend $100 million to boost hospital staffing and deploy 200 National Guard troops to help at coronavirus testing sites and hospitals amid an explosion of new infections in the state.
Georgia reported 13,670 positive COVID-19 tests Tuesday, breaking the state’s previous one-day reporting record. That increased Georgia’s seven-day average of positive tests to 9,798, a huge escalation from a month ago, when Georgia was recording fewer than 1,000 positive tests a day.
This fifth wave has passed both an early January peak as well as the delta wave that roared through Georgia as schools opened in August and September.
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