• The latest counts for COVID-19 are 22 dead in Davidson County and 2,370 people testing positive. Officials say 1,191 of those have recovered.
• A group representing the state’s doctors advised a slower approach to allowing businesses to reopen than the one presented by Governor Bill Lee last week.
• State officials announced the highest single-day jump in new cases of coronavirus on Sunday as parts of the state prepares to “reopen.” For its part, Nashville will use a phased approach that requires two weeks of decreasing cases before moving to the next phase.
• Local and state colleges are playing the waiting game for the most part as they look to what to do about fall classes, with many having already moved their summer classes to online only.
• Belmont University continues to make preparations for hosting a Presidential Debate this fall in spite of the coronavirus outbreak.
• Nashville is adding 20 tornado warning sirens to support the new “polygon” approach of only activating the sirens when an area is in the direct path of a tornado rather than county-wide. Officials say that a weather radio is still the best protection for knowing when to look out for severe weather.
• A group of volunteer pilots are flying from Atlanta and North Carolina to a lab in Nashville to help speed up the progress of testing in those states in a matter of hours. Ground shipment would take days.
• If you’ve been downtown lately (we won’t tell, but might judge a bit) and saw a guy who looks like Mr. T, you are not seeing things (and not actually seeing the real actor, but a convincing impressionist).
• The NFL Draft was this weekend (virtually), and the pundits were all over the board on what they thought of OT Isaiah Wilson and others picked up by the team.
• The Tennessean has a photo essay about how families and neighbors are coping in the time of COVID-19, and it involves a lot of time spent in their front yard and porches.
• Nashville’s day cares will have many adjustments in the way the operate as they make plans for reopening.
• The spread of the coronavirus has slowed according to public health officials in spite of the increase in new cases, but the progress remains fragile and could be undone.
• Local schools remain closed for the academic year, but there is still an effort to provide some of the education that has been missed. That is bringing with it it’s own struggles.
• Another round of storms has damaged parts of Williamson County near where the March 3 storms crossed. Recovery efforts in Nashville and the surrounding areas has been slowed by the pandemic.
• Nashville Shakespeare Festival actors are taking a unique approach in the time of social distancing to produce a remote version of Romeo and Juliet.

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