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Governor Lee Sees Positive Signs In Tennessee In Coronavirus Situation

  • Wednesday, April 22, 2020

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.
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