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TexasTowelie

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Wed Sep 9, 2020, 12:03 AM Sep 2020

How many active COVID-19 cases are there in Tennessee schools? We still don't know.

The Tennessee Department of Education failed to release the number of active COVID-19 cases linked to the state's schools Tuesday, despite an announcement about the release last week.

After weeks of flip-flopping, Gov. Bill Lee and Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn announced on Thursday, Sept. 3 that the state would finally start publicly reporting confirmed COVID-19 cases linked to schools in a new dashboard.

The dashboard, announced at the governor's press briefing, was supposed to be launched Tuesday and would include the total number of active cases among students and staff broken down by school across the state.

The education department said at the time that it will update the dashboard every Monday with the previous week's number of new cases and the dashboard will include classroom or school closures and whether students are learning in-person, remotely or a hybrid of both for each district.

Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2020/09/08/how-many-active-coronavirus-cases-there-tennessee-schools/5750558002/

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How many active COVID-19 cases are there in Tennessee schools? We still don't know. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2020 OP
cases at UT Knoxville are up 376% in 2 weeks. from 126 to 600. peacebuzzard Sep 2020 #1

peacebuzzard

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1. cases at UT Knoxville are up 376% in 2 weeks. from 126 to 600.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 11:44 AM
Sep 2020

Isolation cases on campus up 311%. From 489 (24 Aug). to 2,012 this week.

Although mask use is mandated in grocery stores and most stores, but many, many non-compliant folks around.

this is true red country.

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