Welcome to G-Line

Welcome to G-Line

Mission: To provide health care professionals and the general public with an authoritative, convenient, locally relevant web site to disseminate information about health care emergencies in the Augusta, Georgia region. The current focus is on the H1N1 “Swine Flu” pandemic.

Sponsors: This site was created and is maintained through a collaboration between the East Central Health District offices of the state Health Department and the Medical College of Georgia, which serves as the Regional Coordinating Hospital for Region G (Augusta and nearby counties). All 14 member hospitals of Region G contributed to the design of G-LINE and provide content on an ongoing basis.

National Visits Influenza-like Illnesses: May 28, 2010

CDC graph of visits nationally for influenza-like illness, updated weekly. This is the last graph for the 2009-2010 season. Updates begin again in October 2010. Click title for more information.

Weekly Flu Activity Nationwide: May 28, 2010

This map shows the activity of 2009 H1N1 "Swine Flu" by state. This is the final update map for the '09-'10 flu season. Click on title for more information.


Augusta Area Update

May 7 2010 Flu activity in Augusta and in the state appears to have abated over the past 6 weeks. During the week ending May 7, Augusta area physicians and hospitals are reporting little flu activity. One area hospital admitted a previously healthy adult with severe, rapidly progressive pnuemonia five days after she and her husband developed a flu-like illness. The monthly volume in the local Children's Hospital emergency department in April was down compared to the marked increases seen from August to November 2009, and is more in line with the volume expected for this month based on past years. Local office-based pediatricians are not reporting unusual levels of respiratory illness in children this week. Click on the title above to read more.

Georgia ILI Curve June 25, 2010

Click on title to see current graph (June 25, 2010) of Influenza-like illness (ILI) for the state of Georgia. This curve differs from the above curve with national data because different regions of the country are at different points in the outbreak. The Georgia curve showed a steady decline from the first week of September until early January, when it leveled off. The pocket of persistent flu circulation in the Southeast US that was noted from late January to late March 2010 has abated. Hospitalizations and deaths in Georgia due to H1N1 have declined after a small rise during those months.

National Impact of 2009 H1N1

June 2010. Flu activity has all but disappeared in the United States after a slight resurgence from February to April in the US Southeast. The percentage of visits to clinics and emergency departments for influenza like illness has declined to the summer baseline. The second wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic is over. The last Pediatric death due to 2009 H1N1 occurred in March 2009. From April 2009 to May 2010 there were a total of 285 deaths in children due to the Swine Flu and another 53 deaths from influenza isolates that were not further characterized. The overall mid-point estimate of deaths in all age groups due to pandemic 2009 H1N1 is approximately 12,000. ... Click on title above for more information.

Georgia Related Deaths

April 29: There have been 68 deaths due to influenza in Georgia residents since the "second wave" of 2009 H1N1 began in August 2009. After falling to zero for four consecutive weeks from late December to mid-January, there were 12 deaths reported in February, 6 in March, and 6 more in April. There were no deaths due to H1N1 reported in Georgia in the past week. The slight increase in hospitalizations and deaths due to H1N1 that was noted in Georgia from late January to mid-April appears to have abated.

region g hospitals

Burke Medical Center
Doctors Hospital of Augusta
East Central Regional Hospital
Eisenhower Army Medical Center
Emanuel Medical Center
Jefferson Hospital
Jenkins County Hospital
McDuffie Regional Medical Center
Medical College of Georgia Health Inc
Select Specialty Hospital
Trinity Hospital of Augusta
University Hospital
VA Hospital Augusta
Walton Rehab Hospital
Wills Memorial Hospital

cdc situation overview

Each week CDC analyzes information about influenza disease activity in the United States and publishes findings of key flu indicators in graphical form in a report called FluView. See the latest update by clicking here.

For an in-depth discussion about the national flu situation this week, click here.