Four years after pandemic’s start, UTHSC shutters COVID testing lab
The lab also analyzed tests from the drive-thru testing site at Tiger Lane — a collaboration between the university, Shelby County Health Department and the City of Memphis — as well as tests from other test sites, labs and area hospitals. (Caleb Jia/Courtesy University of Tennessee Health Science Center)
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, UTHSC’s lab provided testing for Memphians across the city, from the Memphis Grizzlies to the city’s homeless community, and analyzed tests from the drive-thru testing site at Tiger Lane.
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Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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