Bradley County, Cleveland Mayors encourage protection measures from COVID

Bradley County, Cleveland Mayors encourage protection measures from COVID

Use to be sure to figure out worked with rick and i your new start cleaning under the sherman are doing is 12 now 11 where and continues to be a topic in the coronavirus and then make and tennessee counties have the authority to require masks but not all counties are mandating it meanwhile concerns over the virus continue to elevate eight little storyif ant is to protect yourself from covid-19, it's cleveland mayor kevin brooks.

The mayor tells me that he spent 6 days in the icu after he tested positive for the coronavirus.

Cleveland mayor kevin brooks: "this is the worst illness i've ever encountered."

Masks are not required in cleveland or bradley county.

But, protection is strongly encouraged.

So much so that mayor brooks teamed up with the bradley county mayor to ask folks to practice all four of theses things: wash your hands, keep six feet away from each other, avoid large crowds and wear a mask.

Bradley county mayor gary davis: "i feel like i've compared it a lot of times to making an apple pie.

You know, apples without flour and sugar and other ingredients doesn't make an apple pie.

It takes all of them" just this week deaths in bradley county rose to double digits.

But the concern isn't just with bradley county.

Nats on monday, white house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx met with tennessee governor bill lee to talk about the significance in wearing a mask.

White house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx: "tennessee is standing at that very important point in time where their test positivity has just increased into the greater than 10-percent."

White house coronavirus task force coordinator dr. deborah birx: "it's this very moment where we can change the trajectory of the virus before it goes into what we call full logrythmic spread."

While it's up to county leaders to decide if a mask mandate is the right way to go, bradley county mayor gary davis stresses that it shouldn't be just about a mask, but rather the combination of protection measures.

Bradley county mayor gary davis: "we just need to encourage each other to do those things not that some bureaucrat is telling us we've got to do this or that."

Mayor brooks says he feels mask wearing is personal, not political.

Cleveland mayor kevin brooks: "i kevin brooks believe in mask wearing.

My family believes in mask wearing, because we have experienced covid in our home."

Cleveland mayor kevin brooks: "now that i have been through it, miss sherman, you nor anybody else would ever want to have in you body what i had and if all it takes is wearing a mask to keep it out gives thumbs up where's my mask?"

Mayor brooks has been