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    LATEST GEORGIA FIGURES (updated Aug. 12, 3 p.m.): Deaths: 4,456 | Confirmed cases: 226,153 | More detail here


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    In a recent visit to Hall County, Emory epidemiologist Jodie Guest and graduate students from the Rollins School of Public Health provided COVID-19 tests to some 450 poultry plant workers, family members and others. Photo by Jack Kearse at Emory University.
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    Parents walk their children to the entrance of Woodstock Elementary School in Cherokee County on the first day of school on August 3, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    Mary Williams, a parent who is opposed to mandatory face mask requirements, talks with Gwinnett County Public Schools board member Steven Knudsen before the start of the regular board meeting in Suwanee on July 16. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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    Visitors at the Fulton County Government Center in downtown Atlanta on June 29. (REBECCA WRIGHT FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION)
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    Joe Jordan, 82, owner of Cato Shoe Repair, answers a phone call from a customer inside his store in Atlanta. He and his wife, Hattie, have been repairing shoes since the 1960s. In addition to shoes, they work on belts, purses, luggage and more. Atlanta has just opened applications for a program that would give grants to small businesses struggling with coronavirus-related costs. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM) AJC FILE PHOTO
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    Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Harold D. Melton (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    CEO Michael Thurmond talks with the Manager of Brown's The Barber Lounge John Phillips as Thurmond hands out masks and No Mask, No Service signs to businesses on Wesley Chapel Rd in Decatur, Saturday 25, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    November 30, 2018 Atlanta - Amanda Marmins, a volunteer at Souper Jenny, finishes the preparation for one box of soup that will help feed kids in the metro area. RYON HORNE / RHORNE@AJC.COM
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    Sally Hoynacki does a window visit with her mom Edna Taylor who lives in a nursing home in Dahlonega. CONTRIBUTED
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    Publix stores are among major retailers in metro Atlanta that have recently set requirements for customers to wear masks in stores. MATT KEMPNER / AJC
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    As of late July the region anchored by Tift Regional Medical Center and the region anchored by Athens hospitals have no more critical care beds left as the coronavirus pandemic spreads again within Georgia. (PHOTO by HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM)
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    Cuthbert is the county seat for Randolph County, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Randolph had the highest county infection rate in Georgia in April. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Rachel Pinkerton lights candles before a memorial service for Kyle Gregory at Brookwood High School on Friday evening July 24, 2020. Gregory, who died from COVID-19, played football at Brookwood and then went to Georgia Southern University. Pinkerton was a classmate at both schools. (Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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    James Cornacchia, 42, a police officer for Georgia Tech, died June 1 from COVID-19. GEORGIA TECH POLICE DEPARTMENT
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    Gloria Jameson pictured in her hometown Gloucester, Massachusetts, last summer. Her family and friends gathered there to celebrate her 90th birthday. Jameson, a longtime employee at Atlanta s St. Pius X Catholic High School, died on April 16 from COVID-19. FAMILY PHOTO
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    Pastor George Howard Terrell, 73 of Douglasville, died May 1, 2020 from COVID-19. CONTRIBUTED
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    Douglasville pastor was a faithful servant of God and family
    Margaret Stancil pictured in summer 2019 after picking tomatoes from her garden at her home in Ball Ground. FAMILY PHOTO
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    Remembered for her many talents and a lifetime of entrepreneurship, Martha Mangold was most proud of her family.
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    Michael Murrell (right) and his uncle, Victor Bruinton.
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