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Welcome back, tonight covid cases are on the rise once again, fueled by a recent Omicron strain.
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New cases and hospitalizations forcing some cities to reconsider mass mandates. Just this week the Cobb county courthouse reinstated its mass mandate.
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As the county along with Douglas county report they're now in the high community transmission category.
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As CBS 46's Madeleine Montgomery explains some medical experts are calling the recent covid strain one of the worst.
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It's been over two years since the coronavirus took over our world and despite millions people being infected by the contagious illness many folks were able to avoid it.
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Never I hadn't avoided it somehow. - I've never had it before matter of fact gone through two years of teaching hundreds of kids every day, didn't get it, thought I wasn't gonna get it
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The covid came for these church friends. - I'm an elementary PE teacher and I got it two days after school was out.
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According to the CDC, antibodies from vaccines and previous covid infections offer limited protection against it.
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Like I've got the vaccine the booster and so now I'm thinking natural immunity I've got it all.
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Georgia's department of public health graphs show confirmed cases have been on the rise consistently since May.
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Three months ago the state's average of new cases was around 250 a day, now there are two to three thousand people testing positive each day.
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Exact numbers are hard to determine according to medical experts because many people are testing at home or not even at all.
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The CDC reported over 100,000 new cases a day on average, but infectious disease experts say that number could actually be as many as a million and despite the rise in cases this strain isn't looking to be too dangerous.
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It really was not bad at all, I tested and of course I had covid, but I went and ran and I worked in the yard.
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The top five counties in Georgia with the most covid cases, Fulton Gwinnett Cobb Dekalb and Clayton, aka⁽²⁾ Metro Atlanta.