Governor Bill Lee on Wednesday highlighted key data points from the White House guidelines for Opening Up America Again, which highlight three key data buckets: symptoms, cases, and hospital capacity.
He said:
- For the past three weeks, both flu-like symptoms and COVID-like symptoms have steadily declined within the vast majority of Tennessee’s hospitals.
- For the last 19 days, Tennessee has seen a steady decline in the growth rate of new COVID-19 cases.
- To date, we have had 775 of our 7,842 COVID-19 positive patients hospitalized.
Through these hospitalizations, we have kept a close watch on the capacity of our hospitals, and they continue to deliver on care without a change in normal operations.
Additional Data Points:
- Testing: Tennessee has been aggressive on testing and identifying new cases of COVID-19 thanks to private sector partners and the work of the Unified-Command Group.
- Tennessee ranks 12th in the nation for total tests and 15th in the nation for tests per 100,000 people.
- We continuously watch the average day over day increase in growth rate of COVID-19 and want to see a doubling rate of at least 11 days.