Political Rewind: When will it end? Where Georgia stands with COVID three years into the pandemic
Friday on Political Rewind: On Jan. 21, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the U.S.. Since then, more than 2 million Georgians contracted the virus and nearly 40,000 have died. As a milder variant goes around this winter, we ask a panel of health experts how to best protect ourselves.\n\nThe panel\nProfessor Amber Schmidtke, @AmberSchmidtke, medical educator and public health microbiologist\nDr. Carlos del Rio, @CarlosdelRio7, executive associate dean, Emory School of Medicine and Grady Health System\nProfessor Rodney Lyn, Dean of School of Public Health, Georgia State University\n\nTimestamps: \n0:00 - Introductions \n5:00 - Updated COVID numbers\n12:00 - Home testing and testing numbers\n14:00 - COVID fatigue \n16:00 - Importance of boosters\n19:00 - Regional hotspots in Georgia\n21:00 - Reliability of home tests\n26:00 - Disparities between communities of color \n32:00 - Impact of health care in Georgia?\n38:00 - Rural vs. urban divide \n42:00 - Maternal mortality rates\n45:00 - Attacks on health care workers during the pandemic, misinformation \n52:00 - HIV cases update\n\nMonday on Political Rewind: The AJC's Patricia Murphy joins the panel.