Harris considering weekly COVID testing for some county employees

By , Daily Memphian Updated: August 03, 2021 3:17 PM CT | Published: August 03, 2021 2:52 PM CT
<strong>Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (left, shown with Dr. Bruce Randolph at a July 15 briefing addressing the surge of Delta variant cases) says his office is weighing weekly COVID testing for county employees.</strong> (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris (left, shown with Dr. Bruce Randolph at a July 15 briefing addressing the surge of Delta variant cases) says his office is weighing weekly COVID testing for county employees. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

The Shelby County mayor says a survey of county employees found that 70% had already been vaccinated.

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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