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Georgia hospitals struggle with COVID-19 surge as ICU beds near capacity article Nurses Penny Mumford, left, and Lisa Lynn prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of the Chatham County Health Department on December 15, 2020 (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) ATLANTA - Behind Georgia s unprecedented post-holiday surge in coronavirus infections, hospitalizations, and deaths, the Kouns family s story is particularly heartbreaking. Chris Kouns, a veteran college soccer coach from Lawrenceville, Georgia, says his family had been careful to wear masks and social distance. But Kouns believes the virus found them Christmas morning when his parents Phillip and Marcia Kouns came over to open presents with their 12-year-old grandson. ....
Small Christmas gathering leaves 4 Georgia family members sickened with COVID-19 Four members of the same family all contracted COVID-19 after a Christmas gathering. ATLANTA - In the last photo Chris Kouns has of his father Philip Kouns Christmas morning, he is sitting on his son s Lawrenceville, Georgia, couch with his wife of 54 years, Marcie, both of them wearing matching holiday pajamas. They are watching their 12-year-old grandson open his presents. It felt like a normal moment, in the middle of year that had been anything but. We were one of those families, from the beginning, that have taken this very seriously, Chris Kouns says. I knew I had two older parents. I knew that I had a wife who was high-risk. ....