Daily Archives: September 6, 2021

How does a county of just 54,000 people manage to amass 184 covid deaths? That’s over 3,000 deaths per million – one of the highest in the country From the chart below – we can see peak deaths occurred in January at 46. Zero deaths in April and very few in May and June. TheContinue reading “Rural Tennessee: Carter County”

What’s behind Tennessee’s rise to the number 1 COVID hotspot in the country? The data might surprise you, it surprised me. I had thought the rise was consistent across the state. The answer is rural populations. Counties with populations greater than 200,000 have, so far, fared better than those with smaller populations. Marion county hasContinue reading “TN COVID: Its a rural problem driven by low vaccination rates”