Light shading shows the number of new cases confirmed each day in the 5 to 18 population of Knox County. The line takes the 7-day average of this number to smooth variations in reporting by day of the week. Current value and percent changes based on 7-day average. School start date is 8/9/2021.

This is an ESTIMATE of the number of currently active Covid-19 cases in the Knox County school-aged population. We assume each new case is active for 10 days, meaning this chart shows a 10-day accumulation of new cases.

These charts plot the 7-day average of daily new COVID-19 cases per 100k population for two different age groups: school-aged from 5-18 along with adults aged 20 and over. The first chart shows the entire pandemic, which demonstrates how closely adult and school-aged cases tracked each other prior to the beginning of the 2021 school year and how much these two populations have diverged since the beginning of the 2021 school year. The second chart zooms in on the period from July 1, 2021 to the present.

The goal of this dashboard is to provide the public with information about the general level of COVID-19 spread in school-aged children (5-18) in Knox County, TN. The data for these charts are pulled each weekday from the Tennessee Department of Health public access datafiles (https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/cedep/novel-coronavirus/datasets/Public-Dataset-Daily-County-Cases-5-18-Years.XLSX for school-aged population and https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/cedep/novel-coronavirus/datasets/Public-Dataset-Daily-County-Age-Group.XLSX for the over 20 population). These school-aged data are superior to data reported by the KCS school district because it is not plagued by the delays that occur between the report of a confirmed case to the Knox County Health Department and the linkage of the case with a district student via contact tracing follow-up procedures. The data we report here includes children not enrolled in KCS, but reflect a better "real-time" estimate of generalized spread in the school-aged population. Further description of each chart provided below. Population size data to calculate cases per 100k is from the U.S. Census Bureau reporter (www.censusreporter.org).