Metro Nashville

At today's conference, Mayor John Cooper announced the city will enter Phase 1 of the Roadmap for Reopening Nashville on May 11, which extends the Safer at Home order through the weekend. The city has not maintained two weeks of new case numbers of less than 100. However, the last few days have been under that mark and cries to begin reopening businesses are growing louder.

Today's roundup of metrics has Nashville reporting 3,432 confirmed cases, an increase of 86 cases in 24 hours. The number of deaths has risen to 35 in Davidson County. During the Thursday briefing, it was reported 1,756 Nashvillians have recovered from COVID-19 with 1,641 cases still active.

The mayor's office in conjunction with the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp are presenting a webinar for hospitality industry businesses on the roadmap for reopening on Friday, May 8 from 1-2:30 pm. For information on the webinar, click here.

Tennessee State

On the state side, the Tennessee Department of Health has confirmed 14,096 cases of COVID-19, an increase of 158 since yesterday. The number of deaths actually decreased two to 237 (in what is presumably a Mark Twain 'reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated' moment). There are 1,266 hospitalizations across Tennessee (up 45 in 24 hours) and 6,783 recovered (an increase of 219 since yesterday). Currently, the state's known hospitalization rate is 9% of confirmed cases. Deaths continue to total right about 1.7 percent of reported cases.

Davidson and Shelby counties lead state case counts, by far. There are also significant numbers of cases in the Nashville MSA with Sumner County reporting 672 cases, Rutherford reporting 661, Williamson reporting 434 and Wilson reporting 288. Nearby Trousdale County, where there was a large prison outbreak of COVID-19, is reporting 1,356 confirmed cases.