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Tennessee Reporting Twice As Many COVID Cases Than During The Worst Point Of The Summer Surge

A Tennessee Guardsman performs a COVID-19 test at a drive-thru center in April.
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Cpl. Samuel Ross performs a COVID-19 nasal swab at a drive-thru testing site in Cheatham County on April 3.
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The state has reported more than 20,000 new COVID cases, in just the past couple of days.

Over 11,000 new COVID cases were reported Sunday, and that doesn’t appear to be a one-off. The state added another 10,000 cases on Monday.

To put things into context, the very worst day of the summer spike in cases is about half of the daily average now.

More than 1 in 5 tests are now coming back positive, and hospitalizations also continue to climb, reaching a new record almost daily.

More than 2,700 people are hospitalized in the state as of Monday afternoon, and after reaching 100 deaths in a day for the first time last week, an average of 67 people with COVID are now dying in the state each day.

More: You can find more coronavirus data visualizations from WPLN News here. 

Rachel Iacovone, Director of Multiplatform Publishing

Rachel Iacovone (YAH-kuh-VOAN-ee) is WPLN's Director of Multiplatform Publishing, which is a long way of saying she leads all the ways the news reaches you (this website, social media, This Is Nashville and more). She began her public radio career covering politics in Florida during the 2016 presidential race. In 2019, Rachel came to Nashville as a local Morning Edition, and later All Things Considered, host before her passion for data deep dives, visualizations, photography and social media storytelling pulled her off air and put her online fully.

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