Coronavirus in Georgia: COVID-19 Dashboard
The AJC will be maintaining this dashboard to help our readers understand the current status and spread of the virus inside the state, and how we compare with the rest of the country. We are relying on data from the Georgia Department of Public Health, along with the COVID Tracking Project for national statistics.
The AJC dashboard reflects the day that confirmed cases, tests and deaths were reported by the state. This means that the new confirmed cases could be reported a day or more after the test results came back, several days after the test was taken, and a week or more after the patient was infected, so the trend line in new confirmed cases reflects the spread of actual infections from a week or more ago.
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As testing in Georgia has increased the number of confirmed cases has continued to grow - which may reflect an increase in the number of infected but may also be a result of more infected individuals being tested.
Georgia did not begin reporting test numbers until Wednesday, March 18.
The AJC is recording deaths on the date they are reported by the state, which can be a day or more after they occurred. Due to delays in test results, some fatalities may not be confirmed to be COVID-19 related until several days later.
Other sources of data, including some state reports, may reflect the first day of reported symptoms or the date of testing instead of the date of report, creating a discrepancy with the AJC dashboard. We will continue to graph statistics by the date of report to maintain consistency and to allow readers to quickly see the change in known cases and deaths from day to day.
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 doesn’t necessarily represent how severe the epidemic is in each state. Because of differences in the number of tests being performed, some states may have more undetected cases. Looking at deaths in each state per million population can present a clearer idea of how widespread the problem is.
We’ve calculated the top 10 states by this measure, and the overall United States deaths per million population, using the 2018 Census estimated population and COVID Tracking Project data.
Because the COVID-19 Tracking project updates its dataset on a different cycle than the Georgia Department of Health, the data in this chart may not sync with the rest of the AJC dashboard at certain times of the day.
Inside Georgia, confirmed cases were initially clustered mostly around metro Atlanta, with a few cases in other parts of the state, but have now spread to nearly all of the state’s 159 counties.
