Albany, Georgia is one of the hottest spots, nationally for COVID-19. Albany’s Dougherty County has less than 100,000 people, yet the per capita rate of coronavirus infection was second only to New York at the beginning of April, 2020. This rural county in Southwest Georgia has already had over 100 deaths, more deaths that any county in the Atlanta metro area. Dougherty is the only non-metro county with over one thousand positive tests for the disease at the writing of this post. How that came to be is probably a combination of two untimely funerals and a court case. But how does a municipality so small and so heavily impacted by this virus keep the water on?
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