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
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