Nursing student with asthma hospitalized for 3 months with COVID complications
A 21-year-old nursing student has been hospitalized for three months with complications from COVID-19.
and last updated 2021-03-11 22:58:26-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â A 21-year-old nursing student has been hospitalized for three months with complications from COVID-19.
Days after Tanner Johnson s 21st birthday, she got sick. Johnson said, For the most part my asthma my whole life has been controlled, but covid definitely made an impact on that especially with my lungs.
Tanner s mom, LaShawn Johnson, credits the doctors and nurses in the COVID-19 ICU at TriStar Centennial Medical Center with saving her daughter s life. They had told me early on, sheâs young and weâre fighting for her. and they kept fighting for her, LaShawn Johnson said.
Hospitals still overwhelmed, low on staff
Source: TN Dept. of HealthThe Tennessee Department of Health on Sunday reported a total of 689,808 cases of COVID-19 across the state, up 14,839 cases since Monday on 11,986 new test results a 12.4 percent positivity rate.
Of the total number of cases, 8,470 people have died up 40 from the number 24 hours earlier.
The number of recorded active cases in Tennessee has fallen 20 percent in two weeks, with state health officials reporting that 57,032 individuals are currently infected with COVID.
The number of people who have been hospitalized with the virus in the state has fallen more than 21 percent in the past two weeks. On Tuesday, the health department reported 2,647 people are being treated for confirmed COVID across 114 hospitals.
We can starve out the virus. Immunity after second COVID-19 vaccine dose takes more than a week
For folks in the mid-state who received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, it takes more than a week to develop immunity.
and last updated 2021-01-11 21:29:25-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â For folks in the mid-state who received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, it takes more than a week to develop immunity.
âThey already have some immunity from getting the first vaccine, a little north of 50%, Dr. Tracy Osborne said.
The second dose gives people more than 90% immunity after a week according to Dr. Osborne. So what our bodies are doing, is amplifying that response, so weâre ready for it because we got the first shot.
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Metro Public Health Department has reported 1,015 new cases of COVID-19 since Monday and a 16.5 percent test positivity rate.
About 61,380 cases of COVID in total have been identified in Davidson County residents since the start of the pandemic. A little more than 12 percent of those are active infections. Of the total number of cases, 435 people have died.
In terms of hospital capacity, Middle Tennessee health systems reports that 16 percent of inpatient beds and 8 percent of ICU beds remain available. More than 500 Nashville residents are currently hospitalized for confirmed cases of COVID an all-time high.
25 hospitals report full ICUs last week
Without reinforcements, facilities being forced to admit only the sickest
At least 16 hospitals in Tennessee ran out of intensive care unit beds last week, according to newly released federal data, and an expected spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations from the Thanksgiving holiday looms.
The federal numbers show 36 hospitals across the state reported having no empty ICU beds last week. But because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services only tracks volumes for units with more than four beds, the
Post was unable to confirm if the other 20 have any ICU beds at all. (Also worth noting: Only 91 of Tennessee’s 126 general and specialty hospitals reported their data last week.)