White House Report: Georgia Coronavirus Response Still Falling Behind Most Of U.S.

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August 25th, 2020

In its latest assessment, the White House Coronavirus Task Force makes a number of recommendations to Georgia officials, including issuing a statewide mask mandate for counties with 20 active cases or more and closing bars in counties with rising test positivity. White House reports from previous weeks have made similar suggestions, but Gov. Brian Kemp has repeatedly declined to take such steps.

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For the second week in a row, a Trump administration assessment of states’ efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus says Georgia is falling behind most of the rest of the country.

The latest report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force says the state had 167 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the week leading up to Aug. 23, the second highest rate in the U.S. The report from the prior week said Georgia led the country in new cases.

The document, obtained by WABE, acknowledges that the state is making progress in driving down some key statistics, such as the number of new coronavirus infections and the percentage of diagnostic tests that return positive results. 

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