ROGERS COLUMN STREET LEVEL Out of the frying pan, First, define into the fire Tennessean Crockett or Jackson: Title Those helping with tornado of “greatest Tennessean” relief don’t have much time to might hinge on a technicality. worry about COVID-19. P3 P11 March 20-26, 2020 Vol. 46 | Issue 12 NASHVILLE EDITION www.TNLedger.com The power of information. LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • RUTHERFORD • CHEATHAM WILSON SUMNER• ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 COVID-19 SPECIAL COVERAGE FacingFacing thetheVIRUSVIRUS Local insights inside on TESTING, ADVICE FOR CARETAKERS, LEGAL IMPLICATIONS and the IMPACT ON RESTAURANTS Stories by Kathy Carlson begin on page 2 shutterstock.com images by Jef Thompson | Design by Leigh Singleton REALTY CHECK Real estate’s Public kryptonite Records inside & online February was another TNLedger.com record month for area Realty Check .......................................3 home sales. But that was Community Calendar ..........................4 News Briefs .......................................6 before COVID-19. Public Records .................... 8, 9,18-21 P3 Public Notices and Foreclosures ........................ Section B Marketplace ....................................23 Section A - Page 2 www.TNLedger.com MARCH 20-26, 2020 COVID-19 testing is here: What you need Photo courtesy of the CDC This is a picture of CDC’s laboratory test kit for severe acute respiratory syndrome to know coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). CDC tests are provided to U.S. state and local public health laboratories, Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories and select international laboratories. has complicated the picture. n Vanderbilt Health Walk-In Clinic Belle There are hurdles, and many who Health care providers are the Meade, 4534 Harding Pike gatekeepers for testing for coronavirus. n Vanderbilt Primary Care Gallatin, 300 want to be tested don’t need it yet “We recommend people contact their Steam Plant Road regular health care provider,” says Shelley By Kathy Carlson Hurdles along Walker, director of communications for Potential patients should call ahead the way to getting a the Tennessee Department of Health. before going to these sites. Vanderbilt also etting tested for COVID-19 coronavirus test include “If a provider decides to test, specimen states VUMC clinicians will not assess isn’t anything like having having to get the green collection can be completed by most patients for COVID-19 who are not bloodwork done for your light from a health health care facilities. Specimens can exhibiting symptoms of fever, new onset annual physical. Individuals care provider and the be sent to the commercial laboratories cough or shortness of breath. can’t receive tests on demand, Facing In addition, Vanderbilt won’t treat or COVID-19 logistics of who has the conducting COVID-19 testing or can be and they sure can’t walk into tests and how many sent to the state laboratory if they meet assess respiratory illnesses at its Vanderbilt Ga drugstore, buy a test and go home and there are. Conflicting Health Clinic at Walgreen’s locations. state testing criteria.” check things out on their own, as with a information from the federal government The state’s testing analyzes samples from VUMC states it “has performed home pregnancy test. patients’ noses and throats, she explains. hundreds of laboratory tests for patients The number of kits is not necessarily who have exhibited symptoms of the same as the number of patients who COVID-19.” Results are available to can be tested. Walker says a patient might patients online. Vanderbilt researchers youryour NashvilleNashville SymphonySymphony provide anywhere from one to three also are working on a coronavirus vaccine specimens in order to be tested using and investigating possible new treatments. LiveLive atat AscendAscend AmphitheatAmphitheat the CDC-provided kits the Tennessee Two private lab companies that do Department of Health was using. So, 300 business in Tennessee, Quest Diagnostics on sale Now kits would be enough to test anywhere and LabCorp, say they have rolled out from 100 to 300 people. coronavirus testsin the past two weeks. Vanderbilt University Medical Center Both companies say patient specimens is doing its own testing now, although not should be collected in health care via drive-thru means, says Craig Boerner, providers’ offices – not at the companies’ senior information officer and national facilities – for testing at the providers’ news director. VUMC testing sites are: request. Nasal and throat swabs are sent n Vanderbilt Health Walk-In Clinic Mt. to the labs, and expected turnaround for Juliet, 64 Belinda Parkway both tests was three to four days, barring spikes in demand or other contingencies. JUNE 13 n Vanderbilt Health Walk-In Clinic Melrose, LabCorp states it first made its test 2608 Eighth Ave. S available March 5, with specimens n Vanderbilt Health and Williamson received the next day. The company Medical Center Walk-In Clinic Spring Hill, can run several thousand tests per day, 3098 Campbell Station Parkway and new equipment and staff are being n Vanderbilt Health Walk-In Clinic Bellevue, added, it states. At this time, the test 7069-B, Highway 70 South can be ordered anywhere in the U.S. by n Vanderbilt Health and Williamson County physicians or other health care providers. JUNE 20 Walk-In Clinic, Cool Springs, 1834 W LabCorp is working to expand testing at McEwen Drive its facilities across the country. Quest began its testing for COVID-19 Symphony Under the Stars: n Vanderbilt Health and Williamson March 9. Its test was developed at Quest’s Medical Center Walk-In Clinic, Brentwood, BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH & NINTH labs in California. Quest’s test is available 134 Pewitt Drive nationally, and the company says it n Vanderbilt Health and Williamson hopes to expand processing of the tests Medical Center Walk-In Clinic, Franklin, to “additional high-complexity Quest 919 Murfreesboro Road Diagnostics laboratories in the coming SEPTEMBER 5 n Vanderbilt Health and Williamson weeks.” Medical Center Walk-In Clinic Nolensville, The test has not been FDA authorized; 940 Oldham Drive it has been validated according to certain WITH SUPPORT FROM n Vanderbilt Primary Care Clarksville, 800 NashvilleSymphony.org Weatherly Street TESTING >> PAGE 10 MARCH 20-26, 2020 www.TNLedger.com Page 3 – Section A COVID-19 threatens hot market Define Tennessean Another month of record Davy or Andy? sales as unknowns lurk Who is greatest The Greater Nashville Realtors released its sales data Tennessean? last week with the David Crockett, aka Davy: Great Ten- activity reported nessean or greatest Tennessean? having occurred before Hold your fire, Andrew Jackson fans. RICHARD the acceptance of the COURTNEY I’ll explain later. fact by most that the REALTY First: Efforts to place a statue of COVID-19 virus is CHECK Crockett on the prime spot of the among us. 4354 Chickering Lane JOE Capitol grounds are making progress in With the virus ROGERS Ledger the Tennessee legislature. The House lurking, but not front of mind, February cancel any open house events. MY TAKE bill that would do so, sponsored by sales increased 10% as of February 2019, With the lag between properties going Rep. David Hawk, is paired with a Senate bill by Sen. with 2019 being a record-breaking year under contract and the closings – coupled The power of Steve Southerland. for area residential real estate sales. with the fact that many people have no information. The proposed location is above the entrance to the Want more good news? There were choice but to move – the Nashville area Motlow Tunnel on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. 3,504 pending sales at the end of the might not feel the impact of the virus if Published weekly by Westview Newspaper, LLC Basically, the front yard of the Capitol. month compared to 2,974 at the end of the flattening of the spread occurs within “It’s going to be the first thing that individuals see,” February 2019. February had an extra day two or three weeks. 222 Second Ave. N. Suite 101 Hawk told members of the State Committee recently. this year in order to pad its stats, but the As for now, it seems there are more Nashville, TN 37201 (615) 254-5522 One slight kink is there is already a statue on the spot, of increase is significant. closings and cancellations by the hour, FAX: (615) 254-5525 Edward Ward Carmack, a newspaper editor, congressman, Sales are continuing to close as and self-quarantining appears to be Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m senator and strident prohibitionist who was shot dead by scheduled, title companies in the area gaining traction. Stay safe out there. the son of a political enemy in 1908. report, but things might change in the last President & Chairman Sale of the Week Peter Schutt Hawk says there are plenty of other suitable landing half of the month as quarantining, closures Laura Baugh of Worth Property Publisher & CEO spots on the grounds for a displaced memorial. and social distancing intensify. Eric Barnes fame listed 4354 Chickering Lane for “Carmack will still definitely have a prominent place on Anyone active in social media know Associate Publisher $1.439 million and sold it for $1.245 & Executive Editor the Capitol, just not the most prominent place,” he says. there is a vocal segment of the population million in 110 days, but much of that Lyle Graves What went unmentioned during the committee’s that feels the dangers of the virus are [email protected] time was during the holidays. Listed in consideration, and that of a previous committee, was the exaggerated, that there is no cause for Planning Editor late October, it went under contract in Cindy Smith fact that in addition to his anti-alcohol passions, Carmack alarm and are going to go about life as [email protected] February before closing last week.