While numbers of patients Russell Medical treats increase, the successes are adding up.
Two weeks after the first positive test for COVID-19 came back, Russell Medical CEO Jim Peace announced it had tested 309 patients tested with 27 positives coming back and was waiting on 57 test results as of Friday morning. Not all of the COVID-19 positives are from Tallapoosa County.
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