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Georgia Coronavirus: Hospital News

Dr. Michael Bossak, a pediatrician, stands outside the pediatric ICU at the Memorial Health Dwaine & Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah on Thursday, September 2, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
After COVID surge, Ga. doc looks ahead: ‘We’re all holding our breath’
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In this photo, a Georgia Department of Public Health nurse gives the first inoculation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Tammi Brown, a Chatham County Health Department Nurse Manager, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2020 in Savannah, Ga. An advisory committee to the CDC on Thursday, September 23, 2021 debated whether people like her, non-elderly health care workers more than six months out from their initial vaccination with Pfizer, should be advised to get a booster shot. (AJC Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
What the latest votes on Pfizer booster shots mean for Georgians
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Registered ICU nurse Katie Van Hook checks on a COVID-19 patient at Memorial Health's Heart and Vascular Institute in Savannah. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
A look at major COVID-19 developments over the past week
Principal Greer Smith greets students during a lunch break at Jeff Davis High School in Hazlehurst on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. When he returned to town after recovery from COVID-19, he was met with a parade. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
A rural hospital fights to save the school principal’s life
Nursing staff put on PPE before they attend to a COVID-19 patient at Memorial Health's Heart and Vascular Institute in Savannah on Thursday. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Inside Savannah hospital, staff manages deluge of COVID patients
A security guard waits at the emergency entrance at Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center on Boulevard in Atlanta on Wednesday. In five of Georgia's 14 hospital regions, ICUs were over 100 percent capacity, as of Tuesday night. That left patients across the state waiting in Emergency Departments for a critical-care bed, or remaining in rural hospitals even though they needed to be transferred for higher-level care. Meanwhile, ambulance drivers routinely waited for hours outside hospitals, tending to their patients until space opened up for them to be transported inside. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
ICUs still full, ambulances strained across Georgia
In this file photo, a school bus arrives for the first day back to school in Jefferson. Since school opened in August, the number of COVID-19 cases among children has surged. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
Georgia public health officials: Most COVID-19 outbreaks now in schools
In this recent photo, medical workers move between buildings at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta as the COVID-19 cases in Georgia continue. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
A look at major COVID-19 developments over the past week
Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta has cancelled all non-essential outpatient surgeries because COVID-19 patients have overwhelmed the facility. Grady is one of the nation's largest safety net hospitals, providing substantial care to low-income, uninsured and vulnerable populations. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
Under siege with COVID patients, Grady Memorial among hospitals delaying elective...
Medical workers move between buildings at Grady Memorial Hospital in downtown Atlanta on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 as COVID-19 cases surge in Georgia. deaths. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
Georgia’s confirmed COVID-19 death count tops 20,000
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