Metro Nashville

As of 9:30 today, the city reported 38,010 confirmed cases, an increase of 635 since yesterday. There are currently 3,112 active cases in Nashville, 34,574 inactive or recovered cases and 280 active hospitalizations. With 324 deaths, the city has a case fatality rate of 0.85%. In Davidson County, 559,972 tests have been administered with a positive rate of 8.3%.

Out of 8 metrics on the trend lines, Nashville has 3 in the green, 2 in the yellow and 3 in the red. With a goal for transmission to be less than 1.0, the city's current transmission rate is 1.07. The 14-day case trend is in the red with new cases rising. 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 15% availability with ICU beds moving into the red as availability dropped to 9% capacity. The goal for both hospital and ICU bed capacity is 20%.

The New Cases per 100K Residents has remained in the red for the past two weeks. The goal of the seven-day rolling average is to be at 10 or below. Currently, Nashville sits at 48.9 as of 9:30 am this morning (up from 46.3 yesterday and 40.3 last Friday). 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 8.4% (but that figure is up from 8.0% this past Friday and 7.4% on Monday, Nov. 2). Overall, numbers continue to trend in the wrong direction.

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Nashville remains in Phase 3 of COVID Reopening. The city also continues its mask mandate, with several nearby counties having reinstated similar mandates after letting them expire earlier. Governor Bill Lee extended the Tennessee State of Emergency tied to COVID-19 through Dec. 29.

Tennessee State

As of this afternoon, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) confirmed an additional 1,979 new cases of COVID-19 with the state total hitting 289,749. There are currently 1,634 hospitalizations (up 81 from yesterday) and 3,672 deaths (up 62 in 24 hours) for a death rate of 1.27. More than 3.9 million tests have been administered statewide (up 15,252 since yesterday) with an 12.4% positive rate today (up from 10.95%). The number of inactive/recovered cases statewide is 256,143.