Taylor: Health Dept. ‘actively working’ with local monkeypox patients
Michelle Taylor, the Shelby County Health Department director, gave an update at the county commission meeting Monday on both COVID-19 and monkeypox. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Health Department director Dr. Michelle Taylor kicked off Monday’s Shelby County Commission meeting with local updates on both COVID-19 and monkeypox.
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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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