The makeshift hospital already up and running in Atlanta’s convention center is providing 200 recovery beds as the number of COVID-19 cases surge statewide.
The converted area at the Georgia World Congress Center is much more advanced than just a cot in an isolation room. Officials with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency played a key role in transforming the convention center.
GEMA Deputy Director Mark Sexton said the center’s focus is on the patient with mild-to-moderate symptoms of coronavirus.
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