Music City Center to reopen for COVID vaccinations on Saturday
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and last updated 2021-02-19 15:02:19-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Metro Public Health officials say the COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville will reopen Saturday.
The vaccination site has been closed since Tuesday due to this weekâs wintry weather. The clinic will be open during its regular hours â 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. â and they will be offering the vaccine to those that have an appointment scheduled for Saturday.
Starting today, Nashville residents ages 70 and older can begin scheduling vaccine appointments
Nashville Mayor John Cooper says residents ages 70 and older can begin scheduling their COVID-19 vaccination appointments on Friday.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Nashville Mayor John Cooper says residents ages 70 and older can begin scheduling their COVID-19 vaccination appointments on Friday.
Earlier in the week, Cooper announced that teachers and childcare workers in Phase 1b could begin scheduling their vaccination appointments on Thursday. During Metroâs weekly COVID briefing, he said the 70 and older age group would be part of this next phase of vaccinations.
Bar, restaurant owners hope staying open later brings more normalcy
Beginning Monday, Nashville bars and restaurants that serve alcohol will be able to stay open an hour later until mid-night. While it may sound like a small change, managers say it will make a big difference
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â For restaurant and bar goers a night out won t have to end until midnight. Customers will also be allowed to enter until 11 p.m. beginning Monday. What the hour does for us it allows us to afford this new property tax hike, maybe a little bit of that, but more importantly what it allows us to do is hire more people and bring more of our employees back to work, said Operating Partner of Nashville Underground, Joshua Pemberton.
Residents at local senior living facility vaccinated after long wait
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Tennessee Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey said the effort to give first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and those who live in skilled nursing home facilities is pretty much complete.
Now the effort is underway in assisted living facilities.
Pharmacists from Walgreens were on hand this week to administer the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to residents and employees of Belmont Village Senior Living. A representative said 96% of residents and 60% of employees were vaccinated.
They say implementing an education campaign within the facility early on was important to the event s success. We started talking about this really early, as soon as we knew the vaccine was approved. We went through a lot of education, we ve had a lot of small group kind of town hall meetings, Zoom meetings, said Senior Vice Preside
January 21 COVID-19 update: Tennessee reports 3,492 new cases, 128 additional deaths
Metro reports 478 new cases, one additional death
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â The Tennessee Department of Health reported 3,492 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the state s total to 697,783.
As of Thursday s update, 639,444 cases are now considered recovered from the virus while 49,655 cases remain active, a figure that has been declining recently. Thursday s rate of positive tests is 13.17%.
One hundred twenty-eight additional Tennesseans have died from COVID-19. TDH said a total of 8,684 deaths have been attributed to the virus.
Hospitals statewide reported 2,513 active COVID-19 patients overnight.
Metro Public Health officials reported 478 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional death.