Coronavirus cases stable in city but rising in suburbs, rural areas
The positivity rate for COVID-19 tests is on the rise in Shelby County suburbs and rural West Tennessee.
Jane Roberts
Reporter
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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September 2020
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Education U of M delays next phase a week; 35% of CBU faculty teaching from home
U of M says extra week will give it more time to work out logistics of having more students on campus.
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CoronavirusHealth Dept.: Significant complaints received about businesses, 5 closed down
County health department officials visited 13 sites that have received complaints for failing to follow distancing or masking or other rules; five were closed after failing to heed warnings.
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Health Care Entrepreneurs, seasoned at Smith & Nephew, create remote care software
Two entrepreneurs from Smith & Nephew have built software that allows surgeons to remotely monitor patients. As the service, MiCare Path, gets on its feet, the creators will stick with what they know best: spines and knees.
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Health Care Nimble UTHSC team sidestepped hurdles to set up COVID-19 testing lab
In a repurposed lab at 930 Madison, UTHSC analyzes about a third of the city's COVID-19 tests, reporting responses in 24 hours.
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Health CareBlueCross opening 4 local clinics, the biggest on Cleveland
Other clinics will be in Whitehaven, Germantown and Cordova; three will open in early November.
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Health Care Health department making plans for COVID-19 vaccine
Memphis physicians say the process will have to move at warp speed to be ready by November, which may eliminate time to observe longer-term side effects and for a broader sample of the public to participate in clinical trials.
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Coronavirus Health Department: Directives will not change for at least 2 weeks
Shelby County Health Department Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph said the department will not make any changes to the Health Directive until about two weeks after Labor Day, due to the incubation period of coronavirus.
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Education UMRF Ventures gains full-time CEO, Pierre Landaiche
The venture started in 2017 with seed money from FedEx. Since then, it has employed 450 students and paid them more than $5.3 million.
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Education U of M pushes past MTSU to regain spot as state’s 2nd-largest public university
No. 2 has long been Middle Tennessee State with more than 22,000 students.
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Business ServiceMaster CEO steps down; board exploring sale of key business
Nik Varty is out as CEO of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, which is considering selling its ServiceMaster Brands business.
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Education U of M may increase on-campus classes Sept. 14
With coronavirus cases dropping, the University of Memphis may bring more students back to campus as early as Sept. 14, though the university says it may not be able to accommodate all faculty requests to return classes to campus.
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Health Care Rising transmission rate worrisome as Labor Day weekend approaches
Plus, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris on Tuesday announced $5,000 in funding for Senior Tech Connect, a new county program that will connect long-term care facilities with technology so residents can see their families.
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Education Student-made COVID-19 treatments at Rhodes fill pipeline
Assistant professor Shana Stoddard is helping students design antiviral compounds for COVID-19, raising the bar for what remote learning can be.
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August 2020
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Education Research gains fuel U of M hopes for Carnegie R1 status
Federal grants on campus are up 50% and now account for more than 75% of the university's outside research funding.
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Health Care Quick, $5 antigen tests expected in Shelby County next month
The U.S. government purchased 150 million rapid-result antigen tests; up to a million are set aside for Tennessee.
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Metro Cases among student-athletes will be investigated like others, health officials say
Team members and coaches have the highest risk, said David Sweat, deputy director of the local health department.
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Health Care Doctors scratch heads over CDC guidance for less testing
New CDC guidance says that people who come in close contact with a positive case may not need to be tested.
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Financial Services U of M managing $40 million shortfall, sees more cuts ahead
Shortfall on campus includes investments leaders have made in students while at the same time, being aware that it may have to lay off staff and administrators.
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Coronavirus Harris: COVID-19 info on children to be handled with ‘extreme care’
COVID-19 claimed the life of a child under 13 years old this week, health officials said, noting the virus was either the cause of death or a contributing factor.
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Health Care Schools must notify at-risk contacts within 12 hours, send weekly updates
Schools have responsibility to contact people who may have come in contact with the virus on school property. It must happen within 12 hours.
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Health CareFDA reverses decision, gives emergency approval for blood plasma infusions
About face comes after high-ranking experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, said early results did not prove the therapy works.
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Health Care Le Bonheur statistics show pandemic’s brute force on children
The Resilience Initiative at Le Bonheur reports depression and mental illness up 250% in family homes since pandemic began; violence in neighborhoods up 350%.
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Health Care FDA delay of blood plasma approval won’t slow local trials
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis has conducted nearly 850 of the plasma transfusions during the pandemic.
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Coronavirus Haushalter: ‘We are moving in the right direction’
Shelby County Health Department Health Officer Dr. Bruce Randolph: “We are looking at the data. It is looking good, but what we don't want to do is get so excited that we return back too soon."
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