Nashville reported 21,779 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 9:30 this morning, an increase of 195 over the last 24 hours and 710 over the past 72 hours. There are currently 4,218 active cases in Nashville (down 270 since Friday morning), 17,357 individuals who have recovered (up nearly 1,000 since Friday) and 176 active hospitalizations (down 10 over the weekend). With 195 deaths (up 3 since Friday morning), the city has a case fatality rate of 0.9%.
In Davidson County, 175,199 tests have been administered with a positive rate of 12.4% (not as high as it has been but still up from 10.7% on July 1 and 9.4% on June 1). Of note, the 7-day average for positive tests is 11.6% as of today - down from 12.9% on Friday and 14.3% the Friday before that.
On the trend lines, the transmission rate is in the green. With a goal for transmission to be less than 1.0, the city has seen a rate of 0.99 for the last several days. The 14-day case rate remains in the yellow and is currently stable. Hospital floor bed capacity has returned to the green with 19% available this morning at 9:30 am, just slightly under the goal of 20% availability. ICU beds remain in the yellow, however, with 18% current capacity, which is a slight improvement from the 17% availability in city inventory on Friday morning. Like hospital capacity, the goal for ICU beds is 20%. Public health and testing capacity remain in the green.
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Masks are required in Nashville, and a number of other surrounding counties have also begun instituting mandatory mask regulations. 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
The state reports 110,636 cases of this afternoon, an increase of 1,009 since yesterday and 4,677 since Friday's report. Tennessee has recorded 1,092 deaths (an increase of 19since yesterday and 32 since Friday). There have been 4,808 hospitalizations across Tennessee (up 52 in 24 hours) and 70,878 have recovered (an increase of 2,407 since yesterday). A total of 1,573,222 Tennesseans have been tested for COVID-19 (an increase of 12,201 since yesterday).
Despite rising case numbers and actual numbers of deaths, statewide death rates have continued to drop, falling to 0.99 today. That figure is down from a death rate of 1.3 on July 1. TDH also reports stable hospital capacity. Currently, 22% of floor beds and 16% of ICU beds are available in the state. There are also more than 1,000 adult ventilators (68% of capacity) available as of today.
