There are 9 article(s) tagged coronavirus pandemic:

• May 2021

  • Tennessee opts out of higher federal unemployment benefits

    Tennesseans on unemployment insurance won’t get the extra $300 per week provided by the federal government as of July 3, Gov. Bill Lee announced Tuesday, May 11.

    By Ian Round May 11, 2021

• February 2021

  • Southaven church hosts blood drive as pandemic ravages supply

    Brown Baptist Church in Southaven is hosting a blood drive to combat the nationwide blood shortage that has been worsened by the pandemic. 

    By Daja E. Henry February 05, 2021

  • Health care workers among those reluctant to get vaccinated

    Despite public health experts’ pleas to get vaccinated, health care workers are among a third of reluctant Americans wanting to wait to get a COVID-19 shot. 

    By Daja E. Henry February 01, 2021

• December 2020

  • The pandemic within the pandemic: An explosion of domestic violence

    Domestic violence has exploded this year locally and across the country since the novel coronavirus struck – a pandemic within a pandemic that’s filled police blotters with a spike in accounts of extreme brutality.

    By Natasha Senjanovic December 21, 2020

• October 2020

  • Calkins: She went from ‘GameDay’ to unemployment — a brutal year for Memphis athletics

    Tammy DeGroff, as integral to Memphis athletics as you can get, is another casualty of the economy.

    By Geoff Calkins October 02, 2020

• September 2020

  • Calkins: Could pandemic last another year? A handbook for how to cope

    Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it may be late 2021 before life begins to feel normal again. So how to we persevere? Here is the wisdom of three people: Kirk Whalum, a character called “TrashMan” and my 95-year-old mom. 

    By Geoff Calkins September 14, 2020

• August 2020

  • Governor extends state of emergency through September

    Bill Lee signed executive orders Friday extending Tennessee’s state of emergency until Sept. 30 and allowing mayors to put mask mandates in place.

    By Sam Stockard August 28, 2020

  • Opinion: It’s their calculated risk: For Memphis Tigers to win, they have to play

    Doing all they can to avoid the fate of the conferences that have shut down.

    By Don Wade August 20, 2020

• July 2020

  • FedEx offers COVID-19 tests to its Memphis employees, vendors

    FedEx has launched voluntary COVID-19 testing for Memphis area employees and on-site vendors. Testing sites are at FedEx Express world headquarters and near the hub at Memphis International Airport.

    By Wayne Risher July 10, 2020