Respiratory illnesses climb in southern Middle Tennessee

Cases of flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID are climbing in southern Middle Tennessee, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting. Each Friday, the CDC updates the respiratory illness data channel with the latest statistics for respiratory virus activity and provides community snapshots signifying if activity levels are minimal, low, moderate, high or very high.

As of Friday, Dec. 27, emergency department data from Maury County hospitals indicates that RSV rates are very high, flu rates are high and COVID rates are moderate; however, all three are cli...