The Knox County Health Department reports 843 coronavirus cases and 28 probable cases.
That's 202 new cases in the past week, with 15, 24, 36, 18, 39, 34, 36 as the cases per day for the past week.
According to the TN Dept. of Health, on 6/27/2020 for the first time Knox County broke the threshold for rate of new covid-19 cases per 100,000 Tennesseans. This threshold is used for decision making processes, e.g. long term care facilities in counties below the threshold for 14 consecutive days may consider allowing visitors. Sevier County has been above this threshold for 14 days.
There are eighteen Knox County COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized. That's fourteen more hospitalized than last week. There have been five total deaths in Knox County from COVID-19.
As of June 25, 2020, ICU Bed availability is at 14.3% (272 ICU beds total with 39 beds available).
The County Health Department has a map with the number of coronavirus cases per zip code.
On June 25, 2020, these zip codes were reported with the most cases:
37921 has the most cases with 98 (population 28,000), then
37923 with 69 cases (population 30,000) and
37920 with 61 cases (population 39,000) .
37917 with 55 cases (population 27,000)
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On June 21, 2020, these zip codes were reported with the most cases:
37921 has the most cases with 72 (population 28,000), then
37923 with 62 cases (population 30,000) and
37920 with 43 cases (population 39,000) .
37917 with 43 cases (population 27,000)
On June 14, 2020, these zip codes were reported with the most cases:
37921 has the most cases with 57 (population 28,000), then
37923 with 56 cases (population 30,000) and
37920 with 39 cases (population 39,000) .
On May 31, 2020, these zip codes were reported with the most cases:
37923 has the most cases with 35 (population 30,000), then
37919 with 30 cases (population 28,000) and
37920 with 30 cases (population 39,000
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