I don't know what to "believe" or "think" about COVID, really, other than the obvious. I'm still trying to understand it.
All contributive posts here help.
Georgia has trended from about 1200 reported cases per day to about 1800, the high reached in June was around 3800.
Hospitalizations MAY have started back up, too early to tell. While we tend to focus on the US or our state for obvious reasons, I'd note again that Europe is moving into a catastrophe zone. France reported over 60,000 new cases yesterday, Italy nearly 38,000 cases.
To the extent the US has managed this poorly, Europe is doing far worse, and of course now had to shut down a lot of their economies. And this could be headed our way.
If the US heats up like Europe has, there will be a major push for early release of a vaccine or a shut down, or both.
My best guess is this Spanish variant is more contagious as the weather has not yet changed that much in most of France. And they are still going to school.