New Georgia COVID-19 outbreak has Kirby sensible 'as worried as I've ever been'

No. 5 Georgia can be coming off a tremendous season-opening win over No. three Clemson, but Kirby wise isn't celebrating an awful lot.

With a new outbreak of COVID-19 working via his application, the Bulldogs teach said Monday that he is extra involved now than at every other point throughout the pandemic.

"I'll be sincere with you guys, I'm as worried as I've ever been because we've three or four guys out," smart said, by the use of the Athens Banner-Herald. "We gave a couple personnel participants which have been out with COVID right here lately. For us, we're at our maximum spike."

wise observed his crew is greater than 90% vaccinated and that the handful of instances he's seeing are with vaccinated people. He declined to establish who tested high quality aside from Georgia's director of sports medication Ron Courson.

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The proven fact that these are breakthrough instances, he mentioned, makes it much more stressful.

"We're speakme about breakthroughs," he spoke of, by way of the Athens Banner-Herald. "That concerns you, now not simplest for gamers on the crew that are unvaccinated which are playing and not playing as a result of we want each person to be safe, nevertheless it issues for gamers which are vaccinated that we may lose them. here is the highest we've got been considering fall camp right now."

© provided by using Yahoo! activities Kirby sensible mentioned Monday that a handful of vaccinated Georgia players have confirmed positive for the coronavirus.(furnish Halverson/Getty pictures)

The Southeast place of the united states is at the moment coping with the largest coronavirus outbreak within the nation. Georgia is averaging virtually 9,000 new cases everyday, based on The manhattan times, a 17% raise during the past two weeks. About forty two% of Georgians are vaccinated, a figure that's enhanced than just seven different states.

Georgia will host UAB on Saturday — the Bulldogs opened as -26.5-point favorites on BetMGM — earlier than returning to SEC play on Sept. 18 when South Carolina treks to Athens. although it's doubtful how the Bulldogs' outbreak will influence those games, and the relaxation of the season, it's easy to peer why smart is so concerned.