Gov. Bill Lee made a statewide stay-at-home order Monday requiring all Tennesseans to avoid all nonessential contact with other people and also ordering nonessential businesses to close.
The father and son team of Memphis City Council member Edmund Ford Sr. and Shelby County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. say three hotels are willing to turn over “a significant number” of their rooms for use as a medical facility.
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