Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min · 1 segments
This episode reviews Nashville's two-year pandemic response, highlighting equitable vaccination rates, low mortality, and strong public health outcomes. It shows how city leadership partnered with…
What I'm most proud of at the end of this whole two years, and now there's a lot of retrospect, right? Of course.
From a health standpoint, as a city, we had a vaccination rate which... was on par with national averages in a very equitable manner, so there was no disparities.
We had a mortality rate and a health rate that was better than most of the country.
And then we had, the city of Nashville, had the number one post-pandemic economic recovery of anywhere, the fastest.
And that doesn't happen because we didn't, that happens because we paid attention to it, right? There are decisions, and I've talked to developers to say, like, if you look, we didn't stop construction.
our construction developer partners helped us put in protocols that protected their workers because they cared.
At the end of the day, almost everyone who has a business cares about their people.
And what was great is they needed a partner in me and the city capacity who listened to them to say, hey, we can do X, Y, and Z to give you the safety you want.
What I'm most proud of at the end of this whole two years, and now there's a lot of retrospect, right? Of course.
From a health standpoint, as a city, we had a vaccination rate which... was on par with national averages in a very equitable manner, so there was no disparities.
We had a mortality rate and a health rate that was better than most of the country.
And then we had, the city of Nashville, had the number one post-pandemic economic recovery of anywhere, the fastest.
And that doesn't happen because we didn't, that happens because we paid attention to it, right? There are decisions, and I've talked to developers to say, like, if you look, we didn't stop construction.
our construction developer partners helped us put in protocols that protected their workers because they cared.
At the end of the day, almost everyone who has a business cares about their people.
And what was great is they needed a partner in me and the city capacity who listened to them to say, hey, we can do X, Y, and Z to give you the safety you want.
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