Update 9/8

It's too soon to know if Labor Day will have an impact on COVID-19 cases in Tennessee, yet. However, we do know the city and state have seen upticks following Memorial Day and July 4th festivities.

Metro Nashville

As of 9:30 today, the city reported 26,827 confirmed cases, an increase of 141 over the last 24 hours. There are currently 1,124 active cases in Nashville, 25,460 inactive or recovered cases, and 102 active hospitalizations. With 243 deaths, the city has a case fatality rate of 0.91%. In Davidson County, 308,826 tests have been administered with a positive rate of 8.7%. The 7-day average for positive tests is 5.5% as of today (down from 6.6% on Sept. 3).

On the trend lines, Nashville continues to have 5 out of 8 in the green with the remaining three in the yellow. With a goal for transmission to be less than 1.0, the city has a current transmission rate of 0.74 (the lowest since the pandemic began), keeping the trend line in the green. The 14-day case rate is also in the green with a decreasing trend in new cases. 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 18% availability. ICU beds also remained in the yellow with 17% capacity. The goal for both hospital and ICU bed capacity is 20%.

The New Cases per 100K Residents remains in the yellow this week. The goal of the seven-day rolling average is to be at 10 or below. Currently, Nashville sits at 13.1 on this metric (which has been trending downwards for two weeks). 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 5.5% as of 9:30 this morning.

More detailed data is available on the Metro Dashboard. Click here for details.

Nashville moved to a less restrictive modified Phase 2 of the reopening plan on Sept. 1. Masks are required in Nashville, and a number of other surrounding counties also have mandatory mask regulations, although some of those are beginning to expire (looking at you Williamson County). 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

As of this afternoon, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) said the state has 165,754 cases of COVID-19 (up 645 since yesterday but see note below). There are currently 844 hospitalizations (up 18 from yesterday) and 1,896 deaths (up 27 in 24 hours) for a death rate of 1.14. More than 2.34 million tests have been administered statewide (up 6,201 since yesterday). The number of inactive/recovered cases is 148,165.

TDH released a statement earlier this afternoon to say today's case counts include an increase of 645 new total cases, as a result of low volume lab reports received over the holiday weekend.