Fri
Jul 1 2022
12:17 pm
Knox County Health Dept. warns of rising covid cases.
By: bizgrrl

From WATE,

"The Knox County Health Department is asking people to take precautions after noticing an upward trend of COVID cases. Health officials say the number of cases has been slowly going up for the past couple of months."

KCHD is "reminding people to social distance when possible, wash their hands often and mask up when needed." They "expect to see the higher numbers continue, they have hope that it will end soon."

KCHD also mentioned case numbers could be higher since many people are probably using at-home tests that do not get counted.

Finally, KCHD "suggests getting vaccinated against COVID if you have not done so." Only 58% of Knox County residents over 18 are vaccinated with 2 doses. Only 27% of those residents hsve received a coronavirus booster.

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"Tennesseans lag the nation

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2022/07/01 - 7:33pm.

"Tennesseans lag the nation in getting COVID-19 booster shots."

"As of this holiday weekend [July 4, 2022], nearly 22% of Americans had not received a single dose. In Tennessee, it was more than 37%."

"Only about 11% of deaths locally are documented as breakthrough cases, which means the remaining 89% of COVID cases that died were unvaccinated,"

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The best data

Submitted by fischbobber on Fri, 2022/07/01 - 8:56pm.
(in reply to bizgrrl)

Right now it would appear that wastewater tracking is the most effective way of giving communities a heads up to their citizens. Unfortunately, Tennessee is one of the least represented in sites being collected, despite the presence of ORNL and UT system. This would be the most vital information to withhold because it would most accurately report where we were at any given moment. Since Jacobs took control of our covid response, this is the information he's been suppressing.

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I can think of no reason to suppress this data beyond trying to accelerate the spread of covid in an attempt to saturate our community with this virus once again. Remember, hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators. They get worse a couple / three weeks down the road. We tend to lag behind the Northeast and Midwest, so it appears we may be getting ready for another wave. Hospitalizations are already up.

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