A Year of COVID Tweet Share At the beginning of 2020, most of us probably didn’t even know what an N95 mask was. Since then, roughly 90,000 Nashvillians have contracted the illness known worldwide as COVID-19. That means somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 of every 100 Davidson County residents has tested positive for the virus, with the fatality rate hovering around 0.7 percent. COVID-19 has impacted Nashvillians in countless ways, and its fallout will surely continue to affect us even after the cases and fatalities have finally subsided. In this issue, we explore how the virus has hit Nashville over the past 12 months — from the restaurant and music-venue worlds to public education, transit and beyond.