St. Jude recruited Dr. Nienhuis from the National Institutes of Health in 1993.

While no other lab has confirmed the case yet, local experts say the cluster of people around the suspected case could quickly move it to community transmission. 

Health Department survey will allow positive case investigation to happen online instead of in phone interviews.

St. Jude will get two of the four crew positions; details will air on an ad in the first quarter of the Super Bowl.

South Africa strain shows power of mutation against protective forces of two approved vaccines being deployed around the world.

Health Department is sending emails to some turned away saying vaccine was available and apologizing for error.

After receiving a text, people would have four hours to get to a vaccination site.

With feet on the ground and money for Uber rides, researchers hope to stop barriers that keep Black people out of treatment.

Demolition has started to clear space for Alliance Healthcare Service’s $9 million-plus development in an economically distressed area of Summer Avenue.

The emergency-use therapy is available for people who test positive and who could become severely ill due to age or underlying conditions.

“We want to remind people that we saw that it was necessary to change the health directive in response to changes we are seeing in the data,” Dr. Bruce Randolph said. “We are making progress. There is a downward trend in a lot of our metrics.”

No businesses are specifically closed under the new directive, but restrictions remain and individuals are asked to play larger role in tamping down community transmission.

The Center City Development Corp. approved $80,000 exterior-improvement grants to help developers revive three vacant buildings scattered in the Edge District, gave support to a renovation at a key intersection in the South City neighborhood, created a new grant program, and forgave a batch of existing loans.

Nearly 1,000 people in Shelby County due second doses could start receiving them in the last week of January.

Charisse Madlock-Brown leads a group looking at social determinants of health in a massive, NIH-funded database representing 2.5 million people tested for COVID in about 75 clinical centers around the nation.

Dr. Brown holds numerous positions in genetics, genomics and pediatrics at UTHSC.

Haushalter: “We are scheduled to receive 8,900 doses in one week; only a portion is coming to public health. We do not have sufficient supply. We have sufficient resources and manpower.”

Early results on who has received vaccine so far in Shelby County and Tennessee show some disparities, with a large percentage of recipients statewide being of “unknown” race, which is a problem, experts say. 

Methodist Le Bonheur president and CEO is the ninth recipient of the national award.

Through January, the Shelby County Health Department will be vaccinating in a drive-thru line at the Pipkin Building. 

“It will give us the fuel to move our vision research forward,” said the director of the Hamilton Eye Institute. 

Variant doesn’t appear to be more virulent but could ramp reproduction rate here from 1.07 to 1.57 and dramatically increase deaths. 

Appointments may be made online, now. People without internet access may call 901-222-SHOT to schedule an appointment beginning Monday at 8 a.m.

Portal will not reduce demand for the shot or scarcity of supply, but is expected to eliminate long lines, disappointment.

The Shelby County Health Department says more than 24,000 COVID-19 shots have been given in Shelby County so far.