Pipkin has no-appointment evenings, other vaccine incentives
Five hundred doses of COVID-19 vaccine will be available on a first-come-first-served basis at the Memphis Fairgrounds site from 5 to 8 each evening through Sun., April 10. (Ziggy Mack/Daily Memphian file)
City also giving MATA riders free rides to Pipkin and making blocks of slots available to groups, including businesses.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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