State to begin vaccinating elderly next month
The Tennessee Health Department adds elderly to vaccine priority list in 10-year swaths, starting with those 75 and older.
Jane Roberts
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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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January 2021
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Public Safety Teresa Jones served the people with conviction in law, education
Jones grew up in segregation. Her role model for becoming an attorney was Perry Mason.
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Health Care Drive-thru vaccine sites closed for now
Drive-thru sites were busy all weekend; the Health Department will announce later this week when and where drive-thru sites will reopen.
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Shelby County For now, Health Dept. will give daily updates on where shots are given
Director Alisa Haushalter says the early days of the rollout are going to be bumpy and people will have to make their vaccination plans based on where and to whom the shots are being given that day.
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Shelby CountyPipkin Building will be vaccination site through early summer
COVID-19 is now the third-leading cause of death in Shelby County and has killed five times more people than the 173 who succumbed to complications from influenza in 2019.
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Health Care Shelby County out of coronavirus vaccine; 2.6% of residents got shots
The Shelby County Health Department says more than 24,000 COVID-19 shots have been given in Shelby County so far.
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Shelby CountyCOVID surge taxing contact tracing efforts of Health Dept.
The Health Department expects to double down on enforcement, targeting workplaces associated with spread, including warehouses and other industrial settings.
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Health CareCounties will schedule vaccines, starting next week
Portal will not reduce demand for the shot or scarcity of supply, but is expected to eliminate long lines, disappointment.
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Health Care Local scientists, labs rushing to sequence UK variant
Variant doesn’t appear to be more virulent but could ramp reproduction rate here from 1.07 to 1.57 and dramatically increase deaths.
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Shelby CountyPipkin Building set up to vaccinate 80-100 per hour
Through January, the Shelby County Health Department will be vaccinating in a drive-thru line at the Pipkin Building.
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Shelby County Early shot-takers praise compassion, can-do efficiency at Pipkin
The Health Department is making notes for rolling out mass COVID-19 vaccinations in other neighborhoods.
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Financial Services UMRF earns international designation; could boost recruiting
The designation signifies UMRF can help with domestic market research, patent reviews, import/export law, plus offers access to capital investment.
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Shelby County Health Department has vaccine, will start Tuesday at Pipkin
Appointments may be made online, now. People without internet access may call 901-222-SHOT to schedule an appointment beginning Monday at 8 a.m.
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Shelby County Health Dept. expects to announce COVID-19 vaccine openings in ‘upcoming days’
Haushalter: “We are scheduled to receive 8,900 doses in one week; only a portion is coming to public health. We do not have sufficient supply. We have sufficient resources and manpower.”
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Shelby County Equity already issue in who’s getting vaccine; so is missing data on race
Early results on who has received vaccine so far in Shelby County and Tennessee show some disparities, with a large percentage of recipients statewide being of “unknown” race, which is a problem, experts say.
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Metro Yes, Tennessee employers can mandate vaccine, but...
One Memphis lawyer says the downside of mandating the vaccine could be having to fire a significant number of staff who will refuse it without grounds.
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Health Care Where, how you live matter when it comes to COVID-19
Charisse Madlock-Brown leads a group looking at social determinants of health in a massive, NIH-funded database representing 2.5 million people tested for COVID in about 75 clinical centers around the nation.
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MetroHealth Dept. will issue Health Directive No. 17 on Jan. 20
The indoor capacity of restaurants will increase from 25% to 50%, effective Saturday, Jan. 23.
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Shelby County Heads up! Second-dose vaccine notices coming this week
Nearly 1,000 people in Shelby County due second doses could start receiving them in the last week of January.
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Health CareHealth Directive No. 17 loosening restrictions issued
No businesses are specifically closed under the new directive, but restrictions remain and individuals are asked to play larger role in tamping down community transmission.
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Education U of M commits to $15 an hour minimum wage by June 5
Union workers have fought for increased wages at the University of Memphis for several years.
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Financial Services Shelby County is poster child in national eviction study
The county’s large-scale evictions, relatively affordable housing and median unemployment rate make it representative of hundreds of communities in the nation.
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Shelby County Shelby County announces 2nd dose appointments
Those who received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine can begin making appointments for a second dose starting at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 25.
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Health Care Antibody infusion shows 80% effectiveness in nursing home patients
The emergency-use therapy is available for people who test positive and who could become severely ill due to age or underlying conditions.
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Health Care UTHSC widens opioid study to add focus in Frayser
With feet on the ground and money for Uber rides, researchers hope to stop barriers that keep Black people out of treatment.
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