COVID infection rates rising, but hospitalizations remain low, health director says
Shelby County Health director Dr. Michelle Taylor (in a file photo) delivered a COVID-19 update during the weekly Shelby County Commission meeting on May 9. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The seven-day rolling average is now more than five times higher than what it was three weeks ago, Dr. Michelle Taylor told the Shelby County Commission.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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