ATLANTA — We now know that Memorial Day gatherings and the impact of protests are starting to show up in to our COVID-19 data.
Georgia's curve has been trending upward over the past week, but stayed steady Tuesday.
The graph below shows the progression of COVID-19 cases since mid-March. The section in orange shows the cases from the past week, and the dotted line indicates the 14-day moving average.
One of the explanations public health officials keep giving us for the upward trend, is that the state is testing more.
Here's a look at how testing factors in over the past month.
The bars in orange in the graph below are those positive for the virus, and the teal shows the total number tests given.
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What this tells us is that that we have dramatically increased the number of tests.
One month ago Georgia had completed 260,000 COVID-19 tests. As of Monday, that number had risen to 625,000. That is a 139 percent increase in the number of tests administered across Georgia.
However, the number of people contracting coronavirus has stayed pretty steady in relationship to that.
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