According to the Tennessee Health Department, the deaths of 638 Tennesseans were attributed to COVID-19 during the first 10 days of December. That’s up 98.75 precent from the first 10 days of November when it was 321. Eleven deaths in Bedford County in the last six days have been attributed to the coronavirus...
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According to the Tennessee Health Department, the deaths of 638 Tennesseans were attributed to COVID-19 during the first 10 days of December. That’s up 98.75 precent from the first 10 days of November when it was 321.
Eleven deaths in Bedford County in the last six days have been attributed to the coronavirus.
In the 14 days since Thanksgiving, 95 Bedford County school-age children (ages 5 though 18) have tested positive for the virus.
The positivity rate (percentage of all tests that resulted in positive findings) in Bedford County in the first 10 days of December was 30 percent. Statewide, the positivity rate has been hovering around 18 to 19 precent. In the first 10 days of December the state’s rate was 18.79 percent. The Centers for Disease Control says that to ensure accuracy in evaluating the extent of the virus, positivity rates should be below 5 percent.
In the first 10 days of December the number of people who tested positive in Tennessee, according to the state health department, was 54,210. In the first 10 days of December, there were 1,728 tests conducted in Bedford County and 524 resulted in positive findings.
Bedford County was one of 11 Tennessee counties ranked as the most severe (the darkest red on the map) due to 14 day averages of active cases of over 100 per 100,000. This is the rate the White House Task Force uses to evaluate the severity of the infection. Bedford County had a 14 day average of 102 cases per 100,000. The other counties are as follows: Lake 145 per 100,000, Gibson 113 per 100,000, Carroll 113 per 100,000, Henderson 106 per 100,000, Perry 106 per 100,000, Cannon 124 per 100,000, Warren 101 per 100,000, DeKalb 138 per 100,000 and Scott, 111 per 100,000.
The daily average number of active cases in Bedford County during the first 10 days December was 334. In the prior 10 days the daily average was 314.
