This will be my final COVID-19 update — until and unless we hit a new surge. I am hoping to avoid the topic until at least the beginning of 2022. I do plan to publish the...
Welcome to the Friday report. This one comes to you on a week in which Inside of Knoxville won an award from the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists. Thanks to a nomination from Rusty Odom...
Today will be the final Tuesday update until and unless circumstances force me back to it. I’ll continue the Friday round up for at least a few more weeks. Knox County (and state, national, and international)...
Welcome to the Friday update and, thankfully, to continuing declines in cases numbers, hospitalization, and death totals. Make no mistake: they remain high, and we may well see additional surges. Still, it’s easy to imagine we...
I’m coming at this a little late today, due to hunting and gathering activities for future articles consuming my morning. This one may be a bit briefer. I think the numbers and charts today help answer...
A year ago, or so, I was asked to present the COVID-19 data by the month. The idea being that the inundation of daily numbers can sometimes obscure the bigger picture — too many trees, with...
Welcome to Friday and to October. There is a lot of encouraging news to go around, from dropping numbers of new cases to declining hospitalizations. Along with our cool air we may be greeted with another...
It’s Friday and to go along with that happy fact, there is quite a good bit of encouraging news this week at every level on the pandemic. For whatever reason or combination of reasons, this surge...
As we work our way through the current surge, international metrics are looking better, while national metrics are showing signs of plateau. Tennessee and Knox County continue to experience major impact from the virus. What has...
For the first time in several weeks there may be some good news beginning to creep in among the bad. It appears we may have hit a peak in hospitalizations, for example, though we’ll have to...