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Earlier in the year, as hospitals started to see more and more COVID-19 patients, many put elective procedures on hold. That put Barbara Russell in a tough spot. Her surgery was meant to hold off cervical cancer.

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Scott Steiner, CEO of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, shares what he thinks is behind a recent rise in COVID-19 cases in Albany and how his hospital is watching for a potential second surge in patients.

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Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, an epidemiologist with the Morehouse School of Medicine .and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, says COVID-19 has "ripped the sheets off the basic inequity, structured inequity by race in this country."

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Liz Essley Whyte, a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, has obtained an internal government document that shows federal officials are worried about Georgia's ability to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients even as the state continues to loosen shelter-in-place restrictions.

More on the story here: https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/as-georgia-reopens-its-intensive-care-beds-are-largely-full/

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George Simmons,  a recent graduate of Banneker High School in College Park, joins me to discuss how the coronavirus has upended his senior year and what it could mean for his future.

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Melita Nichols tells the story of losing her 27-year-old daughter, Qunia "Nia" Roberts, to the coronavirus after her own fight with COVID-19. Roberts remains one of the youngest people to die of the disease in hard-hit southwest Georgia.

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Isaac Fung, an epidemiologist at Georgia Southern University, walks through some of the COVID-19 data compiled by the Georgia Department of Public Health (https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report) and discusses what it tells us (and what it doesn't).

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Michelle Nunn, president and CEO of CARE USA, says the international humanitarian organization CARE is offering aid in the U.S. for the first time. That as the non-profit faces a potential downturn in donations as the nation's economy suffers.

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Roxanne Scott, who covers the U.S. Census for WABE, says the conronavirus pandemic is complicating the national headcount--and is showing its real importance.

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Dr. Natalie Lane, medical director for the emergency department of the Children's Hospital of Georgia, says its not totally clear why kids seem to be less affected by the coronavirus, but cautions the pandemic could still affect them profoundly.

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