NASHVILLE, TN – Three pulmonary specialists and the head of the Vanderbilt Infectious Disease Department praised Governor Bill Lee for closing restaurants, gyms, and restricting visitation to nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Lee issued Executive Order #17 Sunday, March 22. It prohibits social gathers of 10 or more people. But the physicians said Lee didn’t go far enough. “I believe shelter in place is one of the ways we can mitigate the spread of the virus since we have no vaccine and have no definitive therapy fro this disease,” said Dr. Aaron Milstone, a critical care physician at Williamson Medical…
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Mayor John Cooper announcing the formation of Metro’s Coronavirus task Force March 13. He named Dr. Alex Jahangir Task Force Chair. NASHVILLE, TN – Mayor John Cooper announced a citywide 14-day quarantine Sunday telling residents to stay at home and ordering all nonessential businesses to close. The new public health order goes further than previous ones to reduce public gatherings and restrict social contact. The goal is to “flatten the curve” of the disease in Davidson County so fewer people get sick. So far, only two patients with COVID-19 are hospitalized. Two have died. The healthcare system in Davidson County…
A group of people waiting in the rain to be tested for COVID-19 March 20. The testing site is run by Vanderbilt Medical Center. Governor Lee said more community-testing sites would be set up this weekend. NASHVILLE, TN – The coronavirus has claimed its first victim here. On Friday the Metro Public Health Department reported a 73-year old local man died from the virus. He won’t be the last. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Davidson County doubled overnight. Eighty new cases were reported bringing the total number of victims to 140. Health officials also reported 15 people…
CHARLOTTE, NC — Piedmont Natural Gas today implemented additional steps to protect customers and employees in the communities it serves during the COVID-19 pandemic. The actions taken by the company include: Piedmont Natural Gas will not disconnect any customer’s service for non-payment, to give customers experiencing financial hardship extra time to make payments. This applies to all home and business accounts in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The company will continue to read meters and send bills; customers should pay what they can to avoid building up a large balance that will be harder to pay off later. Through…
NASHVILLE, TN — Mayor John Cooper Monday joined Dr. Alex Jahangir, Director of the Coronavirus Response Taskforce, Dr. Michael Caldwell, Director of Health, Collin Reed, Chairman and CEO, Ryman Hospitality Partners, and representatives from Nashville’s leading hospitals to provide an update on COVID-19 in Nashville. The update follows the Board of Health’s public health emergency declaration from Sunday, which calls for new measures from Nashville’s restaurants and bars to protect the community from the growing threat of coronavirus. Mayor Cooper thanked the Nashville businesses that are voluntarily following the guidelines for social distancing outlined in the public health emergency declaration.…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans over the next 15 days should not gather in groups of more than 10 and avoid bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and crowds. Mr. Trump said at the White House the country is facing “an invisible enemy” that is “so contagious”. The US has so far had more than 4,200 cases of the virus and 74 deaths. There have been more than 174,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus globally and over 6,700 deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. Under the US coronavirus task force’s other new guidelines announced by Mr. Trump on Monday: •…
NASHVILLE, TN — Advance Financial, an award-winning, Nashville-based fintech company, is now accepting applications through March 30 for its 6th Annual Advancing Education Scholarship program. Scholarships are available to high school seniors at accredited Tennessee schools who reside in a county served by Advance Financial. The students must have a minimum 2.5 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) and plan to attend a two- to four-year institution in the United States as an undergraduate. The $1,000 awards are provided to cover part of the students’ college expenses for the fall semester of their freshman year. Over the past five years, the…
NASHVILLE, TN — Tennessee banks are monitoring the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation closely and taking aggressive steps to protect their customers and staff. Tennessee’s 177 banks are dedicated to serving their customers and communities and stand ready to assist them with everyday transactions and to employ measures to help those who may be impacted financially due to COVID-19 and actions being taken to curb further spread of the virus. “Tennesseans can focus on keeping themselves, their families and loved ones safe, while resting assured that their money is secure in their bank,” said TBA President and CEO Colin Barrett. “Their banks…
By Peter White NASHVILLE, TN – Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle dealt a blow to Fairgrounds preservationists last week, ruling that Expo buildings can be knocked down to make way for a MLS soccer stadium and a 10-acre private development. “It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary to destroy perfectly good buildings,” said Save Our Fairgrounds Attorney, Jim Roberts. Under a term agreement, Metro doesn’t have to turn over the property to Nashville SC until December 2020, so Roberts asked Lyle to hold off on a decision to demolish the old Expo buildings until after the 3-4 day trial in May. “There’s…
NASHVILLE, TN — American Baptist College’s (ABC) Spring Break will now start Monday, March 16, 2020, instead of Monday, March 30, 2020. Operational and academic modifications have been made to facilitate social distancing in conformity with international, national, state and local public health agency guidance pertaining to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, now affecting the local area, the state of Tennessee, the nation, and the world. Dr. Forrest Harris, Sr., President of ABC, said, “As an institution focused on providing ethical, social justice leadership, American Baptist College cannot and should not be an “island unto itself” and must take steps…