Changes in COVID-19 Data Reporting drop Cumberland Co. Active Cases and adjust locations of cases.

Information from Cumberland Co. Mayor Allen Foster

Updated numbers include corrections to data reporting errors where some positive tests were attributed to incorrect counties due to a mismatch in zip code assignments. Cumberland County had an increase of 88 new positive cases Thursday offset by 207 newly recovered, many of which are likely attributed to the adjustment. Over 1,700 adjustments were made across the state.

The Governor and the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) today released the new state dashboard for COVID-19 data (see link below). A couple of notes concerning the data. The recovery time was reduced from 21 days to 14 days. Recovered cases are also now referred to as inactive/recovered cases.

The following are the numbers from the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) for Cumberland County as of Thursday, 9/3/2020 at 3:00 PM.  The change from the prior day is in parenthesis.  

217 active cases (-120)

718 recovered (+207)

9 deaths officially reported (+1)

944 positive cases (+88) SEE ABOVE INFO ON DATA CORRECTIONS

40 hospitalizations (+0) 

17,933 negative tests (+334)

5.00% cumulative positivity rate (positive cases / positive cases + negative tests)

1.56% of residents have tested positive

0.36% of residents have active cases