Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms said she learned Georgia Governor Brian Kemp planned on reopening the state when her 18-year-old son ran into her room Monday during the surprise announcement and declared 'he could leave home.'
"I'm perplexed that we have opened up in this way," Bottoms continued."As I look at the data and as I talk with public health officials, I don't see what that it's based on anything that's logical."
But a model cited by the governor as"great news" last Friday from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation showed Georgia passed its peak for virus-related deaths on April 7 and its peak COVID-19 hospitalizations last Wednesday. According to Johns Hopkins University data, Georgia has had 18,947 cases of coronavirus and 733 tied to COVID-19.
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