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. The panel Professor Amber Schmidtke, @AmberSchmidtke, medical educator and public health microbiologist Dr. Carlos del Rio, @CarlosdelRio7, executive associate dean, Emory School of Medicine and Grady Health System Professor Rodney Lyn, Dean of School of Public Health, Georgia State University Timestamps: 0:00 - Introductions 5:00 - Updated COVID numbers 12:00 - Home testing and testing numbers 14:00 - COVID fatigue 16:00 - Importance of boosters 19:00 - Regional hotspots in Georgia 21:00 - Reliability of home tests 26:00 - Disparities between communities of color 32:00 - Impact of health care in Georgia? 38:00 - Rural vs. urban divide 42:00 - Maternal mortality rates 45:00 - Attacks on health care workers during the pandemic, misinformation 52:00 - HIV cases update Monday on Political Rewind: The AJC's Patricia Murphy joins the panel.