Ballad s COVID-19 hospitalizations fall below 70 for first time in six months johnsoncitypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from johnsoncitypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Healthcare workers reflect on one-year anniversary of region s first COVID-19 case johnsoncitypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from johnsoncitypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It was a brutal three months in Northeast Tennessee: Between Nov. 1 and Jan. 31, COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths soared to record highs, infecting more than 32,000 and killing 636.
Now, local health experts are cautiously optimistic weâve seen the worst of the pandemic â that after nearly a year of battling the virus, this is the beginning of the end.
Though the curve of new cases has fluctuated wildly from month to month over the past 11 months, this time feels different. Over the past seven weeks, the regionâs seven-day average of new cases has experience a steep and rapid decline â tumbling from 456.2 on Jan. 7 to 83.6 as of Saturday, bringing Northeast Tennessee more in line with averages reported in early October.
East Tennessee State Universityâs College of Public Health will host its second âCoronavirus: Separating Fact From Fictionâ webinar on Tuesday, this time focusing on questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.
âI think itâs really important (to have events like this),â Dr. Randy Wykoff, the collegeâs dean, said. âThereâs so many sources of information out there and itâs completely understandable when folks donât quite know what reality is when theyâre hearing completely different stories from different places.
âOur goal here is to put folks who know what theyâre talking about to present a little bit of information but, more importantly, answer questions people really have,â he continued. âHopefully, for the folks who are interested in learning more, this will be a good opportunity for them.â