Montgomery County Director of Public Health Joey Smith confirmed via social media that Montgomery County made the list of the top twenty cities in Tennessee for COVID-19 deaths.
On August 18th, Montgomery County Health Director Joey Smith posted a list of the top twenty cities in Tennessee by number of COVID-19 deaths. Montgomery County is listed as number 15 of 95 counties with 18 deaths. He also noted that we had accrued 2 deaths overnight since August 17th.
Top 20 Tennesse COVID deaths by city (Source Facebook) Case count by county as of August 18th (Source Facebook)
The total case count for Montgomery County as of 2:00 p.m. August 18th is 2,182 since March 6th, an addition of 13 cases. 229 of those cases are in people between the ages of 5-18 years.