April 9, 2020 - Metro Public Health Department was unable to provide an update on confirmed COVID-19 cases in Davidson County this morning because of a technical problem with the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS), which is used by the State of Tennessee and local health departments within the state to manage reportable disease data and send notifiable disease data to Centers for Disease Control (CDC). However, the 13th death, a 73-year-old man, was confirmed.
During the regular afternoon briefing, the state released its latest numbers with 4,634 confirmed cases, 94 fatalities, 505 hospitalizations and 921 recovered. The state puts Davidson County cases at 1,004* and deaths at 13.
Additionally, as a reminder, assessment centers are on reduced hours tomorrow and Saturday in advance of Easter weekend. The 36 Tennessee Department of Health COVID-19 assessment sites across the state will be open from 9 am to noon local time on Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11. Tennessee's rural county health department clinics will be closed for other services on April 10 in observance of Good Friday.
People in high-risk categories, including contacts of confirmed cases; people in occupations with exposure to large numbers of contacts; health care workers; nursing home residents; severely immunocompromised patients; critically ill patients; pregnant women and people who have COVID-19 symptoms are prioritized for testing.
TDH has launched two Tennessee Coronavirus Public Information Lines available daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. CDT. Call 833-556-2476 or 877-857-2945.
* Typically, Davidson County numbers differ from state numbers for two key reasons: 1) lab confirmations come to Metro Public Health first and are then reported to state so there is a time lag, and 2) the state counts cases by where the resident lives rather than where the case was confirmed (so visitors to Nashville and those who live in another county in the MSA but are tested in Nashville would not be in the Davidson County numbers released by the state).