Tennessee is one of 10 states to reach a benchmark for COVID-19 testing set by Harvard researchers, who earlier this month estimated that the state needed to perform about 3,266 tests daily by May 15 to properly track and contain the coronavirus pandemic.
A data analysis firm in Nashville is warning that Hamilton County is especially vulnerable to COVID-19 due to its demographics and other social, physical and environmental factors.
Erlanger Health System officials estimate that the public hospital saw a $35 million reduction in net patient revenue for the month of April due to temporarily suspending elective procedures, decreases in admissions and other coronavirus-related expenses.
As COVID-19 testing becomes more widespread, scientists are learning that far more people infected with the coronavirus show little or no symptoms than what was originally thought.
The cluster represents the city's most at-risk neighborhoods
Hamilton County saw its largest one-day surge in COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, growing from 269 to 310. The number of deaths in Hamilton County due to the coronavirus remains 13, with the last death reported on April 18.
A new report from Vanderbilt University Medical Center shows how well social distancing and stay-at-home orders worked to stop the spread of COVID-19 before Tennessee began relaxing social distancing in May.
Hamilton County has gone more than three weeks without a new coronavirus-related death, marking the longest stretch without a COVID-19 fatality of any major county in the state, according to data from the Tennessee Department of Health.
Another person has died in Hamilton County of COVID-19, although the patient was from Georgia and therefore will not be counted in Tennessee's statistics for the global pandemic.
Hamilton County residents are back out in public and congregating as much as they did on March 13, the day President Donald Trump declared a national emergency and the county's first COVID-19 case was confirmed, according to data from the tech firm Unacast.
