Anderson County reports 1,253 COVID-19 cases, eight deaths

Mike Stucka
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New coronavirus cases increased in Tennessee in the week ending Sunday. A total of 112,629 cases was reported. The previous week had 77,519 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.

Tennessee ranked 18th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 14.9% from the week before, with 4,770,122 cases reported. With 2.05% of the country's country, 27 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before. population, Tennessee had 2.36% of the country's cases in the last week.

Many counties did not report data during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, disrupting the current and previous weeks' statistics. Week-to-week comparisons are skewed. However, numbers are accurate to what states reported.

Tennessee has shifted to weekly reports on Wednesday afternoons. This may mean some data in this report is incomplete or older than previous reports.

Anderson County reported 1,253 cases and eight deaths in the latest week. A week earlier, it had reported 679 cases and three deaths. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 16,649 cases and 278 deaths.

Within Tennessee, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Obion County with 2,913 cases per 100,000 per week; Gibson County with 2,782; and Pickett County with 2,655. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.

Adding the most new cases overall were Shelby County, with 14,545 cases; Davidson County, with 10,664 cases; and Knox County, with 7,768. Weekly case counts rose in 94 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Knox, Rutherford and Blount counties.

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Tennessee ranked 45th among states in share of people receiving at least one shot, with 60.3% of its residents at least partially vaccinated. The national rate is 75.5%, a USA TODAY analysis of CDC data shows. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are the most used in the United States, require two doses administered a few weeks apart.

In the week ending Sunday, Tennessee reported administering another 78,930 vaccine doses, including 52,249 first doses. In the previous week, the state administered 104,082 vaccine doses, including 24,217 first doses. In all, Tennessee reported it has administered 9,252,234 total doses.

In Tennessee, 584 people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 180 people were reported dead.

A total of 1,653,144 people in Tennessee have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 21,705 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 70,700,678 people have tested positive and 866,540 people have died.

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Tennessee's COVID-19 hospital admissions staying flat

USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, Jan. 23.

Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:

  • Last week: 3,287

  • The week before that: 3,245

  • Four weeks ago: 1,331

Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:

  • Last week: 188,864

  • The week before that: 197,883

  • Four weeks ago: 99,261

Hospitals in 25 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 22 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 30 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.

Peyton Roth gets her COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccine clinic for students, aged 5-11, on the Alabama State University campus in Montgomery on Jan. 21. The clinic was run as a partnership between Alabama State University, Montgomery Public Schools and the Alabama Department of Public Health.
Peyton Roth gets her COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccine clinic for students, aged 5-11, on the Alabama State University campus in Montgomery on Jan. 21. The clinic was run as a partnership between Alabama State University, Montgomery Public Schools and the Alabama Department of Public Health.

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