Georgia began releasing the number of Georgians hospitalized due to coronavirus and the numbers show that 32.9% of patients who tested positive for coronavirus are currently hospitalized.
As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, 1,097 Georgians have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those, 361 are hospitalized and 38 people have died because of the virus.
Georgia’s death rate is 3.46%.
Despite early reports that elderly residents were most at-risk of catching coronavirus, in Georgia 56% of cases have been confirmed in people age 18 to 59. People 60 and over make up 35% of the total number of infected Georgians.
Below is the breakdown of confirmed cases by county.
County Cases Fulton 191 Dekalb 107 Dougherty 101 Cobb 90 Bartow 76 Gwinnett 46 Cherokee 30 Carroll 26 Lee 24 Clayton 21 Clarke 17 Hall 16 Henry 13 Douglas 12 Fayette 12 Floyd 12 Lowndes 11 Coweta 10 Richmond 10 Forsyth 8 Gordon 8 Polk 8 Rockdale 8 Chatham 7 Columbia 6 Laurens 6 Newton 6 Paulding 6 Troup 6 Early 5 Glynn 5 Houston 5 Oconee 5 Spalding 5 Bibb 4 Mitchell 4 Muscogee 4 Pickens 4 Sumter 4 Tift 4 Worth 4 Baker 3 Crisp 3 Effingham 3 Lamar 3 Lumpkin 3 Monroe 3 Peach 3 Terrell 3 Baldwin 2 Barrow 2 Bryan 2 Butts 2 Coffee 2 Seminole 2 Stephens 2 Whitfield 2 Ben Hill 1 Burke 1 Camden 1 Catoosa 1 Charlton 1 Chattooga 1 Clinch 1 Colquitt 1 Dawson 1 Fannin 1 Greene 1 Harris 1 Heard 1 Irwin 1 Jasper 1 Liberty 1 Lincoln 1 Macon 1 Madison 1 Meriwether 1 Miller 1 Morgan 1 Pierce 1 Pulaski 1 Randolph 1 Tattnall 1 Telfair 1 Turner 1 Twiggs 1 Walton 1 Washington 1 Unknown 79
Thom Chandler
Thom Chandler is the editor of The Georgia Sun and has been writing, editing and managing websites and blogs since 1995. He is a lifelong Georgian and one of those increasingly rare Atlanta natives.
