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VIDEO: Quarantined Georgia coronavirus patient checks in from state park

Afghanistan war veteran is recovering in isolation

Georgia 03-13-2020 Joey Camp, the first COVID-19 patient to be isolated at a special park site in Georgia, shares his story and gives a short tour of the remote site where he is being monitored. (Reported by Jeremy Redmon / jredmon@ajc.com Edited by Tyson Horne / tyson.horne@ajc.com)
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March 13, 2020

Joey Camp is the first COVID-19 patient to be isolated at a special park site in Georgia amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Afghanistan war veteran and former Georgia National Guardsman spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Skype Friday about living with COVID-19 and how he may have contracted it. Listen to his advice for fighting the disease and watch as the Cass High School graduate gives a short tour of the remote site where he is being monitored at Hard Labor Creek State Park, about 50 miles east of Atlanta.

Read the AJC's first article about him here.

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Jeremy Redmon is an award-winning journalist, essayist and educator with more than three decades of experience reporting for newspapers. He has written for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2005.

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