TENNESSEE: Doctors ask every Tennessee mayor to order shelter-in-place: If Governor won’t do it, mayors can, letter argues. It’s true that mayors can. It’s also true that the ones that will, probably already have.

In Knox County, interestingly, we have 33 cases now, an increase of three from yesterday and five from two days ago. Meanwhile, we now have 14 recovered, up from 6 two days ago. So we’re currently subtracting cases (via recovery) faster than new cases are being discovered, even though we’re testing more. This may not mean anything — and we’ll certainly want to see if the trend holds up — but I think it means that our local lockdown, now a week old, is doing some good.

The situation in Nashville, meanwhile, is grim. I’m hearing ugly things from doc friends.