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Georgia health care workers bear witness to COVID surge

Dr. Erine Raybon-Rojas checks her patient infected with COVID-19 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center's (NGMC) Intensive Care Unit on Wednesday. For doctors working in hospitals, the last two weeks have been the most deadly in the COVID-19 battle. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Dr. Erine Raybon-Rojas checks her patient infected with COVID-19 in Northeast Georgia Medical Center's (NGMC) Intensive Care Unit on Wednesday. For doctors working in hospitals, the last two weeks have been the most deadly in the COVID-19 battle. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Jan 22, 2021

We asked health care workers across Georgia to describe how they’re dealing with the surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. Here are excerpts from their experiences as they described them to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Watchdog reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with more than 20 years of experience in print and broadcast journalism.

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Carrie Teegardin is on the investigative team. She is a graduate of Duke University and has won numerous national journalism awards.

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Ariel Hart is a reporter on health care issues. She works on the AJC’s politics team and has reported on subjects including the Voting Rights Act and transportation.

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