Three local bars, restaurants to require proof of vaccination
Three local bar/restaurants have laid down the law: If you want to drink or eat with them, you have to show proof of vaccination or that you’re COVID-free.
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Three local bar/restaurants have laid down the law: If you want to drink or eat with them, you have to show proof of vaccination or that you’re COVID-free.
DeAndre Brown has been tapped to be the acting head of the county’s re-entry program.
Order runs through the end of August and may be renewed.
The VA is the first federal agency to mandate vaccines. It applies to employees at the VA Hospital in Memphis. The only other Memphis hospital that mandates vaccinations is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Gov. Lee has requested counties with independent health departments — Shelby, Madison, Davidson, Hamilton, Knox and Sullivan — that have remaining business restrictions or mask requirements to lift all measures no later than May 30.
“One of the most important things we can all do is ... encourage our friends, our neighbors and our loved ones to take the vaccine.”
‘All told, Shelby County has lost over 1,500 lives,’ Mayor Lee Harris writes. ‘That’s more than the number of soldiers from Shelby County lost during the Vietnam War, Korean War and World War II, combined.’
Look for later hours, bigger tables, less red tape and even a slight loosening of mask use for restaurants under the next health directive.
More than 200 inmates at two Shelby County corrections facilities were offered COVID-19 vaccines that were about to expire.
The deadline to apply for a free gardening plot at Shelby Farms is March 8.
Shelby County Fire Department dispatchers are receiving training in dealing with mental health calls and emergencies.
Shelby County Schools teachers received vaccines beginning Wednesday, just days before their students return to classrooms March 1.
More than 2,400 doses wasted in seven separate incidents, state Department of Health says.
No firm timeline has been set for ending the “boil water” notice affecting Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division customers, MLGW officials said Monday, Feb. 22.
After a late-night notification, teachers braved Monday’s weather to receive expiring doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The city has been running the Appling location with UTHSC, vaccinating about 1,000 people a day without long lines and running out of vaccine.
Bar seating, later hours and more capacity for restaurants are all possibilities in Health Directive 18, which should be effective late next week.
Second-dose shots at the Pipkin Center this week will not hinder distribution of the first dose as many still await vaccination, officials said.
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues, here’s what Shelby County can learn from other areas around the nation.
COVID-19 is now the third-leading cause of death in Shelby County and has killed five times more people than the 173 who succumbed to complications from influenza in 2019.
A new health directive is looming – one that could significantly tighten restrictions for the upcoming holidays.
The president of the Memphis Restaurant Association doesn’t know of any local restaurateur who has been contacted and told that a diner in their place of business tested positive for the coronavirus.
On Monday, new directives from the Shelby County Health Department go into effect and put new restrictions on businesses.
I’m a Republican serving with a Democratic majority, in a blue county of a red state. Shelby County government may not be the perfect model of comity, but the nation could take courage from how well we get along.
Without a statewide mask mandate, leaders across West Tennessee are working to help people understand there is not a rural and urban virus.