The summer COVID-19 surge is here: How to stay safe

The numbers at the Northeast Georgia Health System don’t lie. The COVID-19 summer surge is here. “COVID has become part of our lives, but we never took our eyes off it,” said infectious disease physician Supriya Mannepalli. Since the pandemic’s beginning in 2020, the Northeast Georgia Health System has administered COVID-19 tests to patients across all settings, including outpatient and long-term care facilities, to monitor transmission rates. As recently as April, roughly 2% of the tests came back positive. “Now, we’re at 22% positivity, and this trend is going up,” Mannepalli said. “There is definitely a surge going on.” The Read More