As the week of Christmas draws nigh, Bedford County stands in 55th place on a list of the 90 counties in the nation with the highest number of recent cases of COVID-19 per resident. Tennessee stood at the top of the heap of the states Thursday for its number of cases per resident with 128.3 cases per 100,000 population. The next five states down the list are Rhode Island with 108.5 per 100,000 population, California with 97.6, Arizona 95.1, Indiana 89.8 and Delaware 84.1...
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As the week of Christmas draws nigh, Bedford County stands in 55th place on a list of the 90 counties in the nation with the highest number of recent cases of COVID-19 per resident.
Tennessee stood at the top of the heap of the states Thursday for its number of cases per resident with 128.3 cases per 100,000 population. The next five states down the list are Rhode Island with 108.5 per 100,000 population, California with 97.6, Arizona 95.1, Indiana 89.8 and Delaware 84.1.
Tennessee had 18 counties on the list of the 90 counties nationwide with the highest number of cases per resident.
The Tennessee counties with the highest cases per 100,000 population were (in descending order): Moore with 244.4, Lincoln 244, Warren 241.9, Perry 221.1., Sequatchie with 217.7, Cannon with 204.4, KeKalb with 195.9, Rhea with 177.9, Scott with 177.4, Meigs with 176, Clay with 172.6, Bedford with 169.5, Coffee with 169.1, Morgan with 166.2, Sevier with 164.4, Roane with 161.4, Lewis with 158.4 and Henderson with 152.9.
In the last seven days ( Dec. 11 through Dec. 17) Tennessee’s health department reported 64,257 new cases from 362,609 tests — a positivity rate of 17.2 percent. The highest number of new cases was reported on Dec. 16 when 11,410 people tested positive for the coronavirus. On that day, the state reports there were 57,810 tests conducted. On that day, just under 20 percent of those tested were positive for COVID-19.
On Dec. 17, the state reported that there were 68,661 active cases in Tennessee. In the last seven days, 585 Tennesseans were hospitalized. On the Dec. 17, all but 8 percent of the available intensive care unit beds were filled. The state has 2050 ICU beds and just 163 were available.
Since the first day of December, the deaths of 1,243 Tennesseans have been attributed to the coronavirus. In the last seven days 605 deaths in Tennessee were attributed to the coronavirus.
**Bedford County
In the last seven days, 576 residents of Bedford County tested positive for the coronavirus. In that time, there were 2,073 tests conducted — a positivity rate of 27.8 percent. Since Dec. 1, 1,100 residents of Bedford County have tested positive for COVID-19 from 3,801 tests, a positivity rate of 28.9 percent.
Twenty residents of Bedford County have died since Dec. 1 — a rate of one death every 20 hours.
Since the first day of December, 134 Bedford County school age children (ages 5 though 18) have tested positive for COVID-19.
On Dec. 17, the state reports that there were 577 active cases of the coronavirus in Bedford County. The highest number to date was the day before when the count was 601.
