COVID now looks more like other common respiratory viruses
Like many parts of the world, the Memphis area is seeing a COVID uptick. What differs now is the virus has become endemic like the flu and RSV.
Topic: Dr. Shirin Mazumder
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August 2024
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December 2023
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COVID cases on the rise with holiday social season underway
The most common variant in the U.S. now is the highly contagious HV.1 strain, which accounts for about 30% of new COVID-19 cases.
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September 2023
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COVID hasn’t left, but flu might be worse this winter
COVID hasn’t gone away, but experts say the trend is in the right direction.
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August 2023
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COVID-19 cases in Shelby County are on the uptick
Though the numbers are going up, the amount of cases is lower than at previous times during the pandemic, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine said.
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October 2022
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Infectious disease experts forecast harsh flu season
Flu season typically peaks from December to February but Memphis-area emergency rooms are already treating an unusually large number of influenza patients.
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July 2022
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Shelby County on alert for monkeypox following report of first confirmed case
“The difference is that we know about this infection, it’s been here since 1950,” said an infectious disease expert. “We’re so far ahead with monkeypox, compared to where we were with COVID. But it makes it just truly a different type of problem altogether.”
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December 2020
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Nursing students tapped to help administer vaccines
How fast the vaccine is available to the general public will depend on how many people in the priority categories decide to get it.
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