Southwest Georgia Hit Especially Hard; Convention Center Turning Into Hospital

Gov. Brian Kemp’s office announced Sunday that in a move to add surge capacity for COVID-19 cases, the state has signed a deal to build a 200-bed alternate hospital at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

Courtesy of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority

All but two of Georgia’s 159 counties have at least one case of COVID-19.

Both these counties have very few people. Taliaferro, in east Georgia, is the least populous county in the state, with about 1,600 residents, and nearby Glascock has only about 3,000 people.

Nevertheless, some lightly populated counties in southwest Georgia have felt a significant impact from the pandemic.