Monday 22nd September 2025

Summer Travel and Household Contact Reasons for Some Cases in Madison County COVID-19 Spike

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The Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department has received positive test results for 77 more cases of COVID-19 since July 14, 2021. There is now a cumulative total of 11,682 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Madison County.

The health department has recently seen a spike in cases. Epidemiology staff have linked some of these new cases to summer travel and household contacts.

“We encourage people who have not received their COVID-19 vaccine to get vaccinated as soon as possible,” Regional Director Kim Tedford said. “We know the Delta variant is here based on the representative sampling done through CDC, but currently have no documented cases of Delta in Madison County. Based on studies thus far, we know COVID-19 vaccines offer protection against Delta and other variants. The Delta variant is highly transmissible. The only way to help stop the transmission is by being vaccinated.”

Epidemiology staff are reaching out to these individuals and people who had close contact with these cases.

The department also released the following demographic information about Madison County’s confirmed COVID-19 cases.

GENDER

Sex

Number of Cases

Percentage

Female

6524

55.8%

Male

5094

43.6%

Unknown

64

0.6%

 

HEALTH STATUS

Health Status

Number of Cases

Percentage

Recovered

11336

97.1%

Not Recovered

24

0.2%

Better

37

0.3%

Unknown

48

0.4%

Deaths

237

2%

 

ZIP CODE

Zip Code

Number of Cases

Percentage

38305

6929

59.3%

38301

3474

29.7%

38356

198

1.7%

38391

100

0.9%

38366

216

1.8%

38343

80

0.7%

38313

238

2%

38392

88

0.8%

38355

32

0.3%

38362

158

1.35%

38006

6

0.05%

38302

20

0.2%

38308

19

0.2%

38378

6

0.05%

38303

8

0.1%

Unknown

110

0.9%

 

RACE

Race

Number of Cases

Percentage

Black or African American

3161

27.1%

White

5125

43.9%

Asian

57

0.5%

Hispanic

285

2.4%

Other/Multiracial

223

1.9%

Unspecified

2831

24.2%

AGE

Age (years)

Number of Cases

Percentage

0-10

592

5.1%

11-20

1348

11.5%

21-30

1991

17%

31-40

1713

14.7%

41-50

1681

14.4%

51-60

1703

14.6%

61-70

1345

11.5%

71-80

755

6.5%

80+

478

4.1%

Unknown

76

0.6%

Find more information about COVID-19 from the Tennessee Department of Health at https://covid19.tn.gov/

. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated information and guidance available online at www.cdc.gov/coronavirus.

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