Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Georgia

Georgia testing goals challenged over backlogs and technology

Georgia submits its testing plan to the federal authorities, promising to check four p.c of the state’s inhabitants. ATLANTA — On the finish of April, states have been charged with testing at the least two p.c of their inhabitants earlier than lifting keep at dwelling restrictions. Georgia was nowhere close to that mark, however Governor Brian Kemp determined to open the state anyway. “Look, I perceive the well being care ramifications,” Kemp stated as he defined his choice. Kemp stated he was weighing the wants of working households and companies with the chance that COVID-19 would unfold. Georgia met that two-percent testing purpose on the finish of Might, and within the testing plan submitted to the federal Division of Well being and Human Companies, Georgia promised to go even farther, reaching 4 p.c by the top of July. That’s at the least 433,000 exams every month. To this point, Georgia has succeeded. Labs reported processing 740,000 exams in July. However the surge in demand led