More than 1.2 million COVID-19 cases among children have been recorded since the beginning of the school year, roughly one-fifth of the pediatric cases since the pandemic began.
In Murfreesboro, the number of those with COVID-19 is high with 3,738 "Active" cases throughout Rutherford County. Included in that number are the 196 new cases reported in the past 24-hours. Murfreesboro Mayor Shane McFarland recently told WGNS News that he learned from Saint Thomas Rutherford CEO Gordon Ferguson that the hospitalization rate is high, but the percentage of those hospitalized that failed to get the COVID vaccine is higher.McFarland noted that it is not his job as a mayor .
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