Metro Nashville
As of 9:30 today, the city reported 27,492 confirmed cases, an increase of 192 over the last 24 hours. There are currently 1,175 active cases in Nashville, 26,063 inactive or recovered cases, and 115 active hospitalizations. With 254 deaths, the city has a case fatality rate of 0.92%. In Davidson County, 327,595 tests have been administered with a positive rate of 8.4%. The 7-day average for positive tests is 6.3% as of today.
On the trend lines, Nashville has moved to 6 out of 8 in the green wit only floor bed capacity and new cases per 100K in the yellow. With a goal for transmission to be less than 1.0, the city has a current transmission rate of 0.95, keeping the trend line in the green (but up from 0.74 late last week). The 14-day case rate is also in the green with a decreasing trend in new cases. Public health and testing capacity remain in the green, as they have throughout.
As of 9:30 am this morning, hospital floor bed capacity remained in the yellow with 18% availability. ICU beds is in the green with 20% capacity. The goal for both hospital and ICU bed capacity is 20%.
The New Cases per 100K Residents remains in the yellow this week. The goal of the seven-day rolling average per 100,000 is to be at 10 or below. Currently, Nashville sits at 16.6 (up from 13.1 early last week). The goal for the 7-Day Positivity Rate is to see a figure at 10% or less. Currently, Nashville remains in the green with a rate of 6.3% as of 9:30 this morning.
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Masks are required in Nashville. Additionally, public health officials continue to ask (beg) residents to be vigilant in maintaining social distancing measures, as well as to go out as little as possible, wash hands frequently and stay home if ill. Metro police are authorized to issue civil citations to those who fail to comply with the mask mandate unless the individual has a specific exemption.
Tennessee State
As of this afternoon, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) said the state has 175,231 cases of COVID-19 (up 957 since yesterday). There are currently 762 hospitalizations (up 35 from yesterday) and 2,127 deaths (up 30 in 24 hours) for a death rate of 1.21. More than 2.5 million tests have been administered statewide (up 22,384 since yesterday) for a 4.69% positive rate today. The number of inactive/recovered cases is 158,660.