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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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While theme parks, baseball parks and football stadiums are being used to distribute vaccines nationwide, city and county officials say the Mid-South Coliseum is not a candidate for a mass vaccination site.
Health Department survey will allow positive case investigation to happen online instead of in phone interviews.
St. Jude will get two of the four crew positions; details will air on an ad in the first quarter of the Super Bowl.
Issues still vexing at Pipkin, but the road to vaccine has been so long, few giving up. Related story: Third day goes smoothly at Appling vaccination site
Thousands of extra COVID-19 vaccine doses are headed to Shelby County from the state and Centers for Disease Control.
Health Department is sending emails to some turned away saying vaccine was available and apologizing for error.
Eleven Walmart stores are participating in Shelby County.
People are asked to not come hours early and have proof of their appointment, but the lines were long once again at the Pipkin Building on Thursday.
Appointments at big-box stores will be made through the Health Department.
The location is expected to open late next week.
Southwest Tennessee Community College is one of three recipients of the 2021 Bellwether Award. It represents five years of work to improve the student experience, from registration to graduation.
Capacity at Pipkin doubled Wednesday; late in the day, the lines were running smoothly.
South Africa strain shows power of mutation against protective forces of two approved vaccines being deployed around the world.
“We want to remind people that we saw that it was necessary to change the health directive in response to changes we are seeing in the data,” Dr. Bruce Randolph said. “We are making progress. There is a downward trend in a lot of our metrics.”
After receiving a text, people would have four hours to get to a vaccination site.
Second COVID-19 vaccination dose is available only at Appling site this week.
With feet on the ground and money for Uber rides, researchers hope to stop barriers that keep Black people out of treatment.
The emergency-use therapy is available for people who test positive and who could become severely ill due to age or underlying conditions.
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.
The county’s large-scale evictions, relatively affordable housing and median unemployment rate make it representative of hundreds of communities in the nation.
Union workers have fought for increased wages at the University of Memphis for several years.
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.
Nearly 1,000 people in Shelby County due second doses could start receiving them in the last week of January.
The indoor capacity of restaurants will increase from 25% to 50%, effective Saturday, Jan. 23.
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.