'Our [Tennessee] elected leadership must NOW step up & take action,' Frist said in tweet after the state reached a seven-day COVID case rate of 790.1 per 100,000 cases.
"Our data stewards completed a project linking an additional hospitalization data source from the Tennessee Hospital Association to our COVID surveillance data," Bill Christian, a media spokesperson for Tennessee Department of Health told"This is not a marker of current or recent hospitalizations but rather reflects all patients that have ever been hospitalized with COVID-19 and is helpful in assessing disease severity, the impact of vaccination status, the demographics of...
It’s time our leaders did more to prevent community spread and encourage Tennesseans to take the life-protecting step – for them and for others – of getting vaccinated. Without action, hundreds, even thousands, will needlessly die whose lives could have been saved.Last month, the Tennessee Department of Health said that total vaccinations increased 47 percent during the period between July 12 and August 2.
"Tennessee has always done well at ensuring routine vaccinations for both children and adults are up to date," said Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey in August."While we are focused on routine vaccination, we must also continue to encourage the COVID-19 vaccine."contacted Dr. Bill Frist's office and the Tennessee Department of Health for further comments but didn't receive a response by the time of publishing.
Heart surgeon Bill Frist said on Thursday that Tennessee’s high number of COVID-19 cases would make the state rank second for new virus cases in the world if it were a nation. Above, a heart with wings is drawn on the window as nurses care for a COVID-19 patient inside the ICU at Adventist Health in Sonora, California on August 27.
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