As area hits midway COVID vaccination goal, 5 ZIP codes lag
Vaccination rates in Shelby’s ZIP codes range from 21% to 62%.
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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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Vaccination rates in Shelby’s ZIP codes range from 21% to 62%.
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The InStride network includes the U of M and four U.S. Carnegie Level 1 Research universities, plus campuses on three other continents.
The site will remain open, but with new hours beginning Thursday.
It specializes now in high-dollar chemotherapy drugs, which it ships for free to people who qualify.
Semmes Murphey neurosurgeon Kevin Foley helped develop the system the FDA approved in March. On March 22, he completed his first surgery using it.
New rule goes into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, May 15.
Some businesses, churches and other organizations feel paralyzed with how to provide a safe, potentially mask-less environment without knowing people’s vaccination status.
Shortly after the CDC announced vaccinated Americans could ditch the masks in most situations, Shelby County government said Health Directive No. 21, set to go into effect Saturday, may be in for a rewrite.
Shelby County children as young as 12 were starting to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Thursday, May 13.
Local health officer Dr. Bruce Randolph has said that the new rules will allow people to vote with their feet.
In some ZIP codes, vaccination rates are less than half the rates in other parts of Shelby County.
The mask mandate will be lifted in the new health directive, beginning Saturday, May 15.
“There is a lot of talk about we won’t get herd immunity. It depends on the definition of what you describe.”
FDA advisory committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday, May 12.
As St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital tested every front-line worker, every week, it put together a testing regime big enough to test and analyze hundreds of employee samples a day — providing a gold mine for immunology research.
The City of Memphis is ready now to set up phone banks, dispatch street teams.
Mayor Harris is gathering more advice this week, including hearing from the municipal mayors.
The sweepstakes is open to any Shelby County resident who has received any coronavirus immunization, including those who have only received one shot.
Thirty-two years ago after quitting nursing school in her final semester, Penny Williams earned her RN degree in one of the first in-person commencement exercises in Memphis in more than a year.
Regional One Health earned the lowest marks for care and patient safety while Saint Francis-Bartlett and Methodist Olive Branch were the only four-star hospitals in the metro area.
The pandemic will need to end before businesses shift gears to full recovery mode, according to Douglas Scarboro, regional executive with the Memphis Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, who said, “July 1 seems like a key revaluation point.”
Sullivan, Knox, Hamilton and Madison counties lift mask mandates; Davidson is waiting.
“Masking got us through the surge and out of the summer surge,” said David Sweat, deputy director of the Shelby County Health Department. “We will only make changes after thoughtful consideration at this point.”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is launching its largest strategic investment in its nearly six decades in Memphis.