COVID-19, flu and RSV cases are filling up Tennessee clinics and hospital ERs
"This year's holiday season has left Tennessee with a lingering hangover — a sharp rise in respiratory illnesses. The increase has led to Nashville clinics and hospital emergency departments routinely filled with patients with COVID-19 and influenza.
Tennessee and the rest of the South are now reporting 'high' or 'very high' levels of flu activity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Volunteer State is now at that highest level of flu activity, with a 12% increase in related outpatient visits in the final days of December, according to the CDC and the Tennessee Department of Health. At least one Tennessee child from an undisclosed part of the state has died from the virus, the state Department of Health reported.
Meanwhile, new cases of COVID-19 have been rising in Tennessee since October. As of Dec. 24, the most recent data available, more than 460 hospitalized patients were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. Of those, 63 received treatment in intensive care units, according to that report. Those are the highest numbers since early March."
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Years ago, even before COVID began, a nurse told me something I have never forgotten. She told me to try never to go to the hospital Emergency Room if it could be helped. I'm trying my best to follow that advice.
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