Gov. Brian Kemp’s latest coronavirus order, issued late Tuesday, sets up a framework to allow visitors to return to long-term care facilities.The order will provide some comfort to loved ones who have complained about the inability to see family members in the facilities during the pandemic, but comes as Georgia still faces higher rates of infection and deaths among the state’s most vulnerable citizens.The governor’s says a shelter-in-place order would be in effect for residents of the facilities, and sets up a three-phase system for in-person visits based on the rate of coronavirus...…Gov. Brian Kemp’s latest coronavirus order, issued late Tuesday, sets up a framework to allow visitors to return to long-term care facilities.The order will provide some comfort to loved ones who have complained about the inability to see family members in the facilities during the pandemic, but comes as Georgia still faces higher rates of infection and deaths among the state’s most vulnerable citizens.The governor’s says a shelter-in-place order would be in effect for residents of the facilities, and sets up a three-phase system for in-person visits based on the rate of coronavirus...WW…

Health officials saw the surge coming and sounded alarms, but the holiday get-togethers went on. Now, the scenes officials have dreaded the most since the start of the pandemic are playing out all over Georgia.Hospitals overflow with COVID-19 patients. Some nursing homes are erupting with new cases.Vaccinations are behind, and, for lack of staff, some health districts are limiting COVID testing to get the shots to health care workers and the elderly.Meanwhile, with deaths mounting, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office has deployed a refrigerated morgue truck to store bodies. A second...…Health officials saw the surge coming and sounded alarms, but the holiday get-togethers went on. Now, the scenes officials have dreaded the most since the start of the pandemic are playing out all over Georgia.Hospitals overflow with COVID-19 patients. Some nursing homes are erupting with new cases.Vaccinations are behind, and, for lack of staff, some health districts are limiting COVID testing to get the shots to health care workers and the elderly.Meanwhile, with deaths mounting, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office has deployed a refrigerated morgue truck to store bodies. A second...WW…

Ten thousand thirty-one deaths.That’s the combined number, as of Friday, of Georgians confirmed to have died of the coronavirus and those whose deaths are suspected to have been caused by COVID-19, as reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). Fathers and sons. Mothers and daughters. Brothers and sisters. Friends. Neighbors.A disease unknown last December has now likely killed more Georgians this year than any other cause except heart disease and cancer. Georgia has 159 counties and only one — Taliaferro — a rural county east of metro Atlanta, has not reported a COVID-19...…Ten thousand thirty-one deaths.That’s the combined number, as of Friday, of Georgians confirmed to have died of the coronavirus and those whose deaths are suspected to have been caused by COVID-19, as reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH). Fathers and sons. Mothers and daughters. Brothers and sisters. Friends. Neighbors.A disease unknown last December has now likely killed more Georgians this year than any other cause except heart disease and cancer. Georgia has 159 counties and only one — Taliaferro — a rural county east of metro Atlanta, has not reported a COVID-19...WW…

We asked health care workers across Georgia to describe how they’re dealing with . Here are excerpts from their experiences as they described them to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Editors' PicksThe LatestFeatured© 2022 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. By using this website, you accept the terms of our , , , and understand your options regarding .…We asked health care workers across Georgia to describe how they’re dealing with . Here are excerpts from their experiences as they described them to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Editors' PicksThe LatestFeatured© 2022 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. All Rights Reserved. By using this website, you accept the terms of our , , , and understand your options regarding .WW…

COVID-19 isn’t the only cruel force hurting and killing residents of the state’s long-term care facilities during the pandemic.Disturbing cases of abuse and neglect inside Georgia’s nursing homes, assisted living communities and personal care homes are coming to light as brutal side effects of the coronavirus crisis, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found.In one case after another, care falls short when staff members are overburdened or underqualified. That’s increasingly been the situation during the pandemic as facilities . Yet breakdowns in care, and even criminal acts,...…COVID-19 isn’t the only cruel force hurting and killing residents of the state’s long-term care facilities during the pandemic.Disturbing cases of abuse and neglect inside Georgia’s nursing homes, assisted living communities and personal care homes are coming to light as brutal side effects of the coronavirus crisis, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found.In one case after another, care falls short when staff members are overburdened or underqualified. That’s increasingly been the situation during the pandemic as facilities . Yet breakdowns in care, and even criminal acts,...WW…