• PSA: The IRS website for providing your bank account deposit information for the CARES Act stimulus payment is now live.
• The rate of coronavirus cases in Tennessee is slowing, but experts warn of a second spike if there is a rush to “normal” behavior too soon.
• An off-duty Metro Police Department captain was recorded on video shouting obscenities at a woman and her child near his yard in Bentwood. The department is investigating.
• Schools across Tennessee, including Metro Nashville Public Schools, will not return for classes this spring after the governor asked for them to remain closed.
• Governor Bill Lee also announced drive-thru testing centers will open across the state this weekend, administered by health department nurses and National Guard medics. You will not have to exhibit symptoms of the virus to receive a test.
• A 90 year old woman was serenaded for her birthday Wednesday outside her home in East Nashville.
• There are a lot of ways to still watch live music online, even if you can’t make it to the venue.
• Tennessee State University will waive ACT and SAT requirements for fall 2020 admission, hoping to ease the pressure on incoming students unable to take the tests this spring.
• Area farmers are being creative in their response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, offering a reliable source of certain groceries to their customers.
• The Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program says that more than 100 vaccine candidates have been proposed for COVID-19, with about 70 in pre-clinical development. The program to begin testing some of those candidates at Vanderbilt soon.
• We might again have baseball, hockey and soccer games this summer, but they may be played in front of empty seats for a while.
• One side-effect of having fewer planes in the sky is that meteorologists have less data to work with in forecasting the weather.
• Three Vanderbilt University seniors have developed an antimicrobial phone case made of a copper alloy to slow the spread of COVID-19.
• High school athletes will have to wait until next fall, as the TSSAA has canceled all of its programs for the remainder of the academic year.
• Nashville Scene‘s Stephen Hale looks at voting by mail, a way to reduce the risks of spreading the coronavirus for the upcoming primaries and November general election.

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