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Nashville will begin accepting appointments Thursday morning for a new drive-thrucoronavirus vaccine site intended to open Monday in the city s southeast quadrant.
The vaccination center will open at the old Kmart location at 2491 Murfreesboro Road that has been used as a drive-thru testing site for about a year. Officials from Meharry Medical College will transition from running the testing site to the vaccination center, according to a news release from the Nashville Metro Public Health Department.
The vaccine site will exclusively distribute the one-dose vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson by appointment only. Nashville offered the J&J vaccine during a massive drive-thru event at Nissan Stadium last month. But the Kmart location will be the first city-run site to offer drive-thru vaccination on a daily basis.
Nashville reports 253 new cases, no new deaths
The Nashville Metro Public Health Department reported 253 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours on Sunday, including both confirmed and probable cases.
There are currently 1,746 active cases in Davidson County, with a seven-day average test positivity rate of 3.5%.
So far, 858 people in Davidson County have died of COVID-19, which includes both confirmed and probable cases. There have been a total of 91,956 cases in Nashville, and 89,364 are listed as inactive or recovered.
Currently, 17% of hospital beds in Middle Tennessee are available and 18% of ICU beds are available.
Saturday, March 13
State no longer reports case numbers on weekends