Coronavirus live blog, April 13: Tennessee up to 5,610 cases, 109 deaths
The state reports 1,331 confirmed cases in Shelby County.
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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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The state reports 1,331 confirmed cases in Shelby County.
Every new patient gets swab test plus questionnaire. Patients will be put in isolation rooms until the tests come back, as soon as 45 minutes inside Baptist.
Campbell Clinic says its Memphis hospital partners will have extended operating room hours, including weekends, to catch up on the backlog of elective surgeries.
About 500 people are working to meet the May 14 deadline for opening a makeshift hospital to handle overflow patients in the coronavirus pandemic.
Methodist is participating in a study the Food and Drug Administration is conducting with Mayo Clinic, giving COVID-19 patients serum from those who have recovered from the disease.
The campus developed a free test, and put it in play at Tiger Lane; now it's adding ‘cub’ sites to the mix.
American Esoteric Laboratories in Memphis will begin processing blood samples Tuesday to see if people who had COVID-19 and recovered developed antibodies that may give them immunity.
Organizers at the FedEx Institute suspect the session could pack a wallop: Some 3,800 people are registered with Meetup.com’s Memphis Technology Users Group.
Elective surgery bans — in place in Tennessee since March 19 — have left big holes in hospital budgets. Outpatient procedures account for about 45% of hospital revenue in Memphis.
Challenge is developing marketing and commercialization paths for local technology, then stepping up to the plate to sell it.
In Memphis, 75% of the fatal cases have been African Americans. The underlying health disparities that make them vulnerable aren't new; coronavirus reveals the repercussions.
When researchers see a lull in new cases, they look to how well social distancing was going two weeks earlier.
Rhodes College President Marjorie Hass sent a note to the senior class on Tuesday, telling them that their May 16 graduation had been postponed.
There have been 633 hospitalizations and 1,969 people are classified as having recovered from the disease.
According to data released by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland late Friday afternoon, 278 patients are in city hospitals — 85 of them in ICU — awaiting a final diagnosis.
Twice this week, county Health Department officials have said they were forbidden from releasing hospitalization figures, including numbers of patients in ICUs and on ventilators, because the statewide Hospital Resource Tracking System is not public data.
Using hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 is an off-label use, which means the drugs were intended for other uses and are experimental in treatment for the novel coronavirus.
Old Dominick has begun producing hand sanitizer at its Downtown distillery to help protect some most vulnerable to the coronavirus in the Memphis community.
A new, free app lets people share positive COVID-19 status and allows users to know within 24 hours if they have come in contact with another app user who tested positive.
A UTHSC symposium outlines the need for data, analysis and a detailed plan as county leaders brace for future outbreaks as well as possible second wave of coronavirus
With COVID-19, the small trial at Rentrop Geater clinic in South Memphis could rise to 14,000-15,000, doctors say, and keep people with underlying conditions like diabetes and asthma at home.
The funding comes from the Federal Transit Administration through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that became law.
Donald Thomason, dean of the College of Graduate Health Sciences, said the college has received 2,000 masks from Hebei University and Hebei Medical University. Thousands more are en route from elsewhere in China.
The warning is equally stern for essential businesses, who must sanitize and enforce social distancing, even if it means changing business practices.
If you have been tested for COVID-19, isolate as if you are positive.