The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office conducted raids on 20 locations in a major drug bust in connection with a local drug ring that’s been under investigation nearly one year. The drug bust resulted in 20 service warrant, the seizing of 24 guns and 31 arrest with two people still at large.
Augusta businessman T.R. Reddy was reading a magazine story about a study on long-term symptoms of COVID-19 at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and noticed that its funding was nearly up.
He decided, Let me check in and piggyback (on the funding) and add a few dollars to this, Reddy said Wednesday. The T.R. Reddy Family Foundation did a little more than that. With contributions from businessman Ronnie Powell and his family and University System of Georgia Regent Jim Hull of Augusta, they presented the study leaders with a check for $300,000.
The study, called COVID-19 Neurological and Molecular Prospective Cohort Study in Georgia or CONGA, is following people in the Augusta area and in Georgia who were infected with COVID-19 and checking them for lingering symptoms and problems. It was initially funded with a converted $200,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for its first year, said MCG Dean David Hess, a co-principal investigator on the study. They