{"id":15520,"date":"2020-03-23T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=15520"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T22:48:04","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-setups-covid-19-unified-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/03\/23\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-setups-covid-19-unified-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee setups COVID-19 Unified Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN <\/strong>&#8211; Today, Monday, March 23rd, 2020,&nbsp; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee established the coronavirus COVID-19 Unified Command, a joint effort to be led by Commissioner Stuart McWhorter, to streamline coordination across the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), Tennessee Department of Health and Tennessee Department of Military.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444646\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444646\" title=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee-480x325.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Governor Bill Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic challenges every aspect of traditional government response in a crisis,\u201d said Governor Lee. \u201cI have appointed the Unified Command to effectively change the way we attack COVID-19 in Tennessee as we work to simultaneously address health, economic and supply crises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Stuart McWhorter currently heads the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration and will leave this post to head the coronavirus COVID-19 Unified Command. McWhorter appointed retired Brig. Gen. Scott Brower to serve as chief of staff for the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGen. Brower\u2019s special forces background and previous service as the Acting Senior Commander for the 101st Airborne Division has enabled him to pull leaders together and troubleshoot quickly in a crisis,\u201d said McWhorter. \u201cGov. Lee has urged our team to challenge every barrier and assembling this team is the first step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brower resides in Clarksville and most recently served as the military advisor in residence to the president of Austin Peay State University (APSU). The COVID-19 Unified Command also includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Sheehan, TEMA Director<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Lisa Piercey, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Health<\/li>\n<li>Maj. Gen. Jeff Holmes, Adjutant General, Tennessee Department of Military<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) response is available <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/governor\/covid-19.html\" >HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; Today, Monday, March 23rd, 2020,&nbsp; Tennessee Governor Bill Lee established the coronavirus COVID-19 Unified Command, a joint effort to be led by Commissioner Stuart McWhorter, to streamline coordination across the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), Tennessee Department of Health and Tennessee Department of Military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[3472,357,575,12333,7819,1898,12675,12712,12798,4775,12317,549,284,12801,12800,12799,7379,872,513,12774,871,3350],"class_list":["post-15520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-101st-airborne-division","tag-apsu","tag-austin-peay-state-university","tag-bill-lee","tag-clarksville","tag-clarksville-tn","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-unified-command","tag-jeff-holmes","tag-lisa-piercey","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-patrick-sheehan","tag-scott-brower","tag-stuart-mcwhorter","tag-tdh","tag-tema","tag-tennessee-department-of-health","tag-tennessee-department-of-military","tag-tennessee-emergency-management-agency","tag-tennessee-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15521,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15520\/revisions\/15521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}