Question: May I ask for TN charts/maps? Thanks.

Answer: Since we’re headed down to Tennessee this weekend, your question aligned with my curiosity. Here’s the same set of charts that I shared for VA, NYS, and DC earlier in the week, but this time for Tennessee. I made the charts with data from covidtracking.com. You can find data for each state and some nice visualizations on covidtracking.com if you’re ever curious (same goes for you readers who live in other states and want to see trends!). For Tennessee, you can find more local (county) data from the TN Department of Health, here. As to the charts below, what you’ll see is that things are not looking so good in Tennessee. Testing has plateaued with test positivity still above 5%. Cases have plateaued with a recent 7-day rolling average of 1,347 cases/day. The number of people currently hospitalized has been slowly declining, but the decline has tapered in the last week, with a 7-day rolling average of 864 people currently hospitalized. And average daily deaths have been slowly increasing with the current 7-day rolling average of 26 deaths/day. Tennessee needs to increase testing to find more cases, isolate them, and curb community-transmission if it’s going to get a handle on the virus.

Figure 1. Tennessee Cases, Hospitalizations, Deaths