Sullivan & Washington County, TN COVID-19 Update

Sullivan & Washington County, TN COVID-19 Update - 07/13/20

I have been producing and posting graphs related to active and new cases in NETN on my Facebook page. A few people have asked if I have these posted elsewhere. I will use this blog to post updated data and information about COVID-19 in Northeast Tennessee. This data comes directly from the Tennessee Department of Health.

Active Cases

New Cases per Day
The 14 day average rate is based on the average of new cases per day for 14 days per 100,000 county residents. The red, yellow, green colors represent the thresholds identified by local districts for school opening plans.

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Tennessee Releases Info on School-Aged COVID-19 Cases

Yesterday, Tennessee released the number of total COVID-19 cases in school-aged children (5-18) by county. This is the first time we've had the ages broken out this way. Previously the state was providing ten year age ranges (0-10 and 11-20). For the NETN region, 9.5% of cases have been school-aged children. This ranges from 0% in Unicoi to 23% of cases in Hancock county. These are total cases and not active. In other regional case news, Washington County had a record-high new cases (51) on July 19 followed by our second highest day on the 20th (40). The trend is similar across the region. But on the bright side, Sullivan County's active cases dropped on Wednesday for the first time since June 16. Granted they went back up one again yesterday, but we'll take the happy news when we can get it right now. The data below is through Thursday, July 23. If you are a parent and reading this, you've probably been following the 14-day rate per 100,000 people charts I've be...

NETN COVID-19 Active Cases - July 14, 2020

I've been working on different ways to visualize data. Below are the active cases in the Northeast Tennessee Regional Health Department counties + Sullivan County. Counties represented include Carter, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington. New Cases Per Day Reminder: 14 day average rates are based on 100,000 county residents.

Sullivan County Increased by 40 New Cases Yesterday

I keep checking the data every day and hoping that our recent trend of increasing cases is slowing. Unfortunately, the epi curves in Northeast Tennessee look less like curves and more like straight vertical lines at this point. From July 1 to July 18 the region increased by a total of 858 COVID-19 cases . Active cases increased by 608 during this time. Yesterday, Sullivan County experienced its largest single-day increase in cases to date (40). Washington County had our largest increase 3 days ago of 28 cases. I've had questions about whether the increase in positive cases is because we are testing more. Unfortunately, our positivity rate (the percentage of total tests that are positive) is also increasing. Positivity Rates Note: The more local you get, the more difficult the daily rates are to interpret. For example, in Washington County, the days with spikes over 30% very few tests were conducted. On May 20, only 3 tests were reported and 1 was positive. I haven't fi...

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