Roy Exum: J&J Vaccine A Godsend Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - by Roy Exum
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Within hours after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, truckloads of the life-saving medicine were rolling out of a distribution center in Kentucky. According to a state source, Tennessee will get at least 40,000 doses early this week, and in Hamilton County as well as the rest of America, it is a Godsend. “The Health Department was able to give 5,000 doses this weekend – which is a huge tribute to a lot of people,” said County Mayor Jim Coppinger on Monday, ”and, yessir, we are able to give a whole lot more. Get us the vaccine and we’ll get it into people’s arms the minute it gets here.”
Roy Exum: 12 Deaths? No, 2 Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - by Roy Exum
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Late Sunday afternoon I was cruising across the Internet, trying to get a pulse on the current state of the COVID pandemic, and I was thrilled to discover there is a noticeable lull in what has been a very aggressive onslaught of the coronavirus in Tennessee and in Hamilton County. For instance, in Hamilton County we have had a 37.55 % decrease in cases over the last seven days and a 71.4% decline in deaths, both figures per every 100,000 people
My figures are solid, both confirmed by the Centers for Communicable Diseases and Control (CDC) dashboard and the USA Today dashboard. But then I read a report generated by our Hamilton County Health Department that announced we had 12 more deaths on Sunday, “It was the most deaths in one day from COVID in Hamilton County since 12 died on Dec. 8.” I jumped to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard and … presto! … it perfectly illustrated that muc