Hospitals treating more patients and bracing for even more. Mask requirements returning. The push for vaccinations getting stronger, with more workers facing mandatory shots.
The unsettling rise in COVID cases has prompted a flurry of virus-related activity this week across the state and the nation.
Take Central Georgia. A Public Health spokesman there sent out data Monday that said his 13-county district has seen a major increase in COVID cases. The incidence rate of COVID-19 for district residents has hit 125 per 100,000 population, about four times the number from the previous two-week period. Emergency room visits and hospitalizations are climbing, too.
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