Dr. Schmidtke, I've been following your newsletter since the middle of last year. I appreciated all your hard work in keeping us informed. I've been observing the numbers here in the Atlanta metro area as well as our state. The one thing that stands out in your 4/12 report is the same thing that I've been noticed in other parts of the nation, the highly vaccinated areas seems to collate with an increase in covid cases over the last 4-6 weeks. For instance, the state of MI has a high vaccination rate as well as a high increase in hospitalization. In your newsletter the maps of GA seems to show the counties that have the lower vaccination rates all so seem to have lower covid cases (blue and yellow). During 2020 the cases in the Atl. metro area, seemed to have fared better than those in central and southern GA. But now that we have higher vaccination rates, we also seem to have an increase in cases compared to the rest of the state. Could you please comment.
Dr. Schmidtke, I've been following your newsletter since the middle of last year. I appreciated all your hard work in keeping us informed. I've been observing the numbers here in the Atlanta metro area as well as our state. The one thing that stands out in your 4/12 report is the same thing that I've been noticed in other parts of the nation, the highly vaccinated areas seems to collate with an increase in covid cases over the last 4-6 weeks. For instance, the state of MI has a high vaccination rate as well as a high increase in hospitalization. In your newsletter the maps of GA seems to show the counties that have the lower vaccination rates all so seem to have lower covid cases (blue and yellow). During 2020 the cases in the Atl. metro area, seemed to have fared better than those in central and southern GA. But now that we have higher vaccination rates, we also seem to have an increase in cases compared to the rest of the state. Could you please comment.