In Georgia, 14% of coronavirus tests are positive

Georgia has 31,309 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of noon Thursday. A total of 217,303 coronavirus tests have been processed. In terms of percentage, that means that just over 14% of all coronavirus tests are positive in Georgia.

Breaking down the rest of the numbers, the peach state has had 5,816 hospitalizations for coronavirus, though according to the Georgia Department of Public Health that number only includes cases where the patient was hospitalized at the time of reporting the positive test result. It does not include the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases hospitalized after they were confirmed elsewhere. There have been 1,366 ICU admissions for coronavirus and 1,336 deaths statewide.

Fulton County, Georgia’s most populated county, has now crossed the 3,000 mark for confirmed cases with 3,250 cases. Three other counties have crossed the 2,000 case threshold. DeKalb County has 2,391 confirmed cases, Gwinnett has 2,236 and Cobb has 2,011.

Hall County has now surpassed Dougherty County’s case numbers. Hall has 1,933 confirmed cases and Dougherty County has 1,555 cases.

In terms of deaths from the virus, Fulton County has seen more deaths from the virus than any other county in the state with 137 deaths. Dougherty County, which is a hotspot for the virus has 126 deaths. Cobb County is the only other county in Georgia with over 100 deaths at 107.

Below is the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths for each county.

County	Cases	Deaths	Hospitalized
Fulton	3,250	136	601
DeKalb	2,390	61	434
Gwinnett	2,233	82	406
Cobb	2,006	107	509
Hall	1,924	27	243
Dougherty	1,555	126	317
Non-Georgia Resident	1,087	19	68
Clayton	876	33	143
Unknown	837	0	41
Cherokee	550	16	97
Henry	548	14	71
Richmond	430	15	120
Carroll	389	15	78
Sumter	385	29	103
Habersham	378	12	57
Bibb	366	14	102
Douglas	365	11	105
Bartow	359	32	124
Forsyth	359	10	45
Muscogee	351	12	71
Lee	338	22	47
Mitchell	336	31	71
Chatham	283	12	74
Houston	277	14	81
Baldwin	264	10	52
Coweta	246	4	39
Upson	245	23	25
Newton	235	8	39
Early	224	26	13
Rockdale	224	7	53
Spalding	222	11	38
Thomas	220	22	48
Paulding	212	10	53
Colquitt	198	10	13
Barrow	195	5	53
Terrell	193	21	34
Fayette	187	11	36
Crisp	179	6	36
Worth	178	13	33
Clarke	174	13	31
Lowndes	172	4	31
Columbia	170	5	29
Randolph	167	20	28
Troup	167	5	45
Butts	164	17	17
Coffee	160	8	47
Floyd	152	12	40
Ware	146	13	41
Walton	143	5	22
Tift	139	6	37
Whitfield	135	6	18
Dooly	134	13	34
Gordon	120	14	29
Jackson	117	3	22
Hancock	112	2	12
Calhoun	109	4	7
Decatur	105	2	11
Stephens	91	1	22
Wilcox	90	12	15
Burke	89	3	18
White	83	1	19
Gilmer	83	0	14
Macon	81	3	29
Appling	79	10	15
Grady	77	4	22
Lumpkin	74	1	13
Turner	73	10	11
Dawson	72	1	13
Laurens	70	1	14
Glynn	68	1	10
Oconee	67	0	10
Brooks	64	7	6
Johnson	64	2	10
Polk	63	0	10
Peach	61	2	16
Walker	61	0	1
Harris	60	2	10
Meriwether	59	1	10
Pierce	58	3	16
Bryan	57	4	18
Greene	55	5	17
Catoosa	52	0	5
Putnam	51	5	10
Oglethorpe	51	3	10
McDuffie	50	4	16
Washington	46	1	4
Bulloch	42	2	9
Pike	41	2	7
Wilkinson	40	2	14
Liberty	39	0	11
Lamar	38	1	4
Effingham	38	1	11
Toombs	37	3	9
Marion	37	1	9
Murray	36	1	5
Ben Hill	36	0	3
Camden	34	1	6
Elbert	34	0	3
Monroe	33	4	7
Pulaski	33	1	7
Fannin	33	1	5
Seminole	32	2	7
Union	32	1	10
Banks	32	0	8
Haralson	31	2	8
Pickens	31	2	8
Cook	31	1	5
Dodge	31	1	7
Jones	31	0	4
Miller	30	0	1
Morgan	30	0	3
Baker	29	2	9
Bacon	29	1	4
Telfair	28	0	5
Clay	27	3	5
Madison	27	1	5
Stewart	27	0	8
Wilkes	26	0	5
Jasper	26	0	4
Franklin	25	1	5
Talbot	24	1	11
Brantley	22	2	1
Jeff Davis	22	1	4
Emanuel	22	0	3
Bleckley	21	0	0
Irwin	20	1	2
Towns	20	1	7
Crawford	19	0	4
Berrien	19	0	1
Taylor	18	2	8
Atkinson	18	1	6
Jenkins	17	1	4
Jefferson	17	1	3
Dade	17	1	3
Screven	16	1	7
Clinch	16	0	2
Chattooga	15	2	3
Schley	15	1	7
Hart	15	0	0
Heard	14	1	4
Rabun	13	1	5
Warren	13	0	3
Charlton	13	0	3
Wayne	13	0	2
Lincoln	12	0	5
Chattahoochee	12	0	5
Webster	10	2	5
Lanier	10	1	4
Tattnall	9	0	1
Twiggs	8	0	3
Candler	7	0	1
Quitman	6	1	3
Echols	5	0	0
Wheeler	5	0	0
Evans	5	0	0
McIntosh	5	0	2
Long	5	0	2
Treutlen	4	0	0
Montgomery	2	0	1
Taliaferro	1	0	0