If you think you might have a respiratory illness, call your primary care physician and get checked out to make sure you don’t have the COVID-19 virus, according to a news release from Whitfield County.
That was some of the advice offered by Whitfield County Emergency Management Agency Director Claude Craig during the county’s live conference call, known as County Connect, on Thursday afternoon, April 2.
You can watch the entire program again online at https://livestream.com/accounts/25637515/events/7960637.
Craig also said that some people who have the virus don’t show symptoms and those who are showing symptoms may be contagious to others for up to 48 hours beforehand. That means it’s important for people to act like everyone around them has the virus and to take precautions like social distancing and frequent intense handwashing for 20 seconds.
Craig updated viewers on the latest statewide statistics through noon Thursday, saying another 531 people have tested positive, another 138 have been hospitalized, and another 55 have died over the past 48 hours. Totals in Georgia are 5,348 positive tests, 1,056 hospitalizations, and 163 deaths. Median age of fatalities has been 73, but deaths have been from ages 29 to 96.