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“If Dan wants to encourage people to get out and support restaurants and whatever else, great. But I don’t expect my favorite news source to shame me for making choices to protect myself once I realized how very badly COVID acts on my particular body.”
We’ve become physically and intellectually lazy. We’ve made our goals easy, and we’ve made the first answer we like good enough, true or not.
The FDA says it’s confident in the safety and effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 vaccines and that the benefits outweigh their risks.
On a recent trip to Europe, I found few people engaged in regular religious life. Beautiful cathedrals were mostly for tourists and not worshipers. I don’t feel in America we are headed down the same path.
“When there’s a medical breakthrough, you’re not going to hear about it first through an ad or sales pitch.”
Nesbit, Mississippi resident John Butler, who did not have a gym membership before, now goes every day, part of what may be his lifelong work to rebuild the 85% muscle mass he lost in his arms and chest.
“Saying that white people are responsible for COVID lingering is untrue and once again an aim to racially divide,” letter writer Jane Maners says of Otis Sanford’s column.
The Shelby County Health Department reported 474 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, Feb. 1.
The Health Department reported 852 new cases in a month that has seen reported daily increases of more than 3,000.
No appointment is needed.
Shelby County Health Department director Dr. Michelle Taylor said that there have been a few reports in Shelby County of fake testing sites.
High COVID-19 case numbers are not only affecting staffing at testing sites but at area police agencies, fire departments and hospitals, Memphis and Shelby County officials said Thursday, Jan. 6.
Some local COVID-19 testing sites will be closed today because of wintry weather. Others will have reduced hours.
The Shelby County Health Department reported 2,661 new cases for Thursday, Jan. 6.
Active COVID-19 cases top 22,000.
Dr. Michelle Taylor says Monday’s lower count in new reported COVID cases, “does not represent an actual decrease in viral transmission.”
COVID-19 data released Tuesday, Jan. 4, reveals more than 2,600 new cases.
UTHSC students and the general public can receive testing without scheduling an appointment from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases per day is 1,909.
The Shelby County Health Department reported a new record of 3,394 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, Jan. 2. The health department reports there are a total of 18,970 active cases and 3,657 active pediatric cases.
New COVID cases for Shelby County came in above 3,000.
Staffers at local testing sites have been impacted by COVID infections, much like other local workplaces, causing a strain to the system.
The Shelby County Health Department reported 1,540 new cases on Monday, Dec. 27.
A new drive-thru COVID-19 testing site just opened near the Memphis airport.
The Shelby County Health Department reported 962 new cases as of Wednesday, Dec. 29