(04-08-2020 08:20 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(04-08-2020 06:54 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(04-08-2020 06:43 PM)bullet Wrote:  Dougherty County Georgia has 63 deaths with a population of 89,502, so a higher rate than Brooklyn or Queens.

Part of me wants to just add those cases to metro Atlanta just because of the transmission vector. Otherwise it stands as a glaring outlier.

That's 3 hours away! Maybe 1 or 2 people originally brought it from Atlanta, but they could have just as easily brought it from New Orleans. In any case, I've read there were a couple of high profile gatherings in Albany where they think it spread. One was at a funeral there, and one was a high profile murder case in Dougherty County where one of the jurors was sick (and eventually had to be excused from the trial).

There were two big funerals in Albany a week apart. There was a person sick at the first funeral and he went back to Atlanta and was the first person to die in Georgia. The minister at the funeral also died. Numerous relatives of the deceased also got sick. Several employees at the funeral home that conducted both funerals got sick. They were talking about it before the first person died. My spouse grew up in that part of the state so she has been following it pretty closely through news and friends. They have a pretty strong case that it came from Atlanta.