Coronavirus Live Blog, April 8: COVID-19 claims life of FedEx pilot
There have been 449 hospitalizations statewide and 592 people have recovered from the disease.
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There have been 449 hospitalizations statewide and 592 people have recovered from the disease.
Except for seven administrators and security officers, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has placed its entire staff on temporary furlough because of COVID-19.
FedEx, UPS and other cargo carriers are on board with FEMA-led airlift of relief supplies into the U.S. to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
With revenues dropping off significantly due to the pandemic, minority business owners are hoping adding online services can help the bridge the gap until it ends.
When the hospital asked, my cousin was among those who said they’d be comfortable working with patients who tested positive for the virus. Now, some of her coworkers avoid her.
Its move to accelerate claim payments to medical and behavioral care providers applies to UnitedHealthcare’s fully insured commercial, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid businesses.
So much of DeeO's Seafood restaurants' business is takeout or delivery anyway, the owners decided to sign a long-term lease for their third restaurant in the Memphis area.
Old Dominick has begun producing hand sanitizer at its Downtown distillery to help protect some most vulnerable to the coronavirus in the Memphis community.
Shelby County has 19 fatalities compared to 9 in Davidson County.
“The goal isn’t so much to expand the volume of testing but the equity of testing, both demographically and geographically,” said Jenny Bartlett-Prescott, chief operating officer of Church Health who is leading the task force’s testing subgroup.
Memphis-based pest control company Terminix Commercial says a new business cleaning service, Disinfectix Site Disinfecting Service, is an extension of cleanups it has done for years after pest clean-outs.
The city's chief operating officer says the model assumes 100% compliance, and that is "not realistic." Meanwhile, racial demographics are missing from local data on the virus as some are concerned areas historically underserved by health care may need more attention in the city's response to the virus.
Stephanie Lepone and Ginna Rauls helped organize a sewing group that fixed over 20,000 damaged masks discovered by Baptist employees.
Memphis-based auto parts retailer has added emergency time off benefit for employees, temporarily suspended share buybacks and restructured borrowing capabilities.
The number of coronavirus cases in Shelby County currently stands at 789, according to the Shelby County Health Department.
American Civil Liberties Union official says more information is needed from the Shelby County Jail as well as other detention facilities and prisons across Tennessee to not only protect inmates’ health from COVID-19 but that of the larger public too.
With testing still in progress, Willowbend Healthcare & Rehabilitation in Marion, Arkansas, had 9 residents and 2 workers testing positive for coronavirus. The affected residents were in quarantine at the facility.
FedEx Express pilots are operating in some of the most challenging conditions ever as the company navigates the coronavirus pandemic. At least 15 have tested positive for COVID-19.
Tennessee is expecting a much smaller surge in COVID-19 hospital patients than projected a week ago as people stay home and the number of new cases begins to dwindle, Gov. Bill Lee said Monday.
Many commercial landlords in Memphis are using a range of options to help business tenants that have little or no income to pay rent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There's help available for out-of-work restaurant and hotel employees as well as musicians and other artists.
The computer model Tennessee and Shelby County are using to predict the surge in COVID-19 cases dramatically changed Monday, April 6, and for the better.
Some FedEx pilots have been pulled out of China and returned to the United States after tests for coronavirus proved inconclusive.