Coronavirus spread through a southwest Georgia city for 10 days in March before hospital staff were told what was filling their wards with desperately sick people, a doctor told Congress
"We were shocked by its abrupt entrance into our lives, and the virus had been spreading quietly for 10 days, and very quickly," Dr. Shanti Akers, a pulmonary critical care physician at Phoebe Putney Health System in Albany, testified. "What started as one case spread like wildfire," she added."We filled ward after ward until we had at least five floors dedicated to the care of these patients.
Shanti Akers"The next day, it's when we began seeing people coming to our emergency room who were sick," Steiner said."Two the first day, six the next day, eight the next day, and it just began to cascade from that point."About 20 people who attended at least one of the funerals contracted the virusOthers were members of the same churches, Steiner said.
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