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Impacts on hospitalization and healthcare Tennessee

Hospitalizations hit an all time high on June 16th, 2020. Many of the impacted hospitals were in the East Tennessee region.

In East Tennessee hospital beds became 85% full, but hospital administration claimed that is still within their capacity and should not be declared an emergency.

Hospitals are losing revenue.

Testing efforts in DC

As of June 28th, 2020, Washington DC has tested 76,112 people, with 10,327 testing positive. There have been walk up and drive through testing efforts across the district, including firehouses, hospitals and pop-up testing centers, with average wait times ranging between 25 minutes and four hours. The average time from the sample taken to a test result has been 3-5 days. DC Public Health Laboratory is processing tests for the DC region. The DC Public Health Laboratory is using PCR assays to determine the presence of the virus in human samples.

As of Monday 15th, 2020, Navy Yard testing center has been performing serology testing to determine previous exposure of COVID-19.