After being closed for two consecutive days due to inclement weather, three Shelby County Health Department COVID-19 vaccination sites reopened Saturday, Feb. 13.

New EEOC proposal says incentives have to be minor, not “100 bucks,” said Burch, Porter & Johnson lawyer Lisa Krupicka.

Previous appointments made for Saturday, Feb. 13, will go on despite cold, at Pipkin, Appling and Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Coronavirus numbers go back up in Shelby County.

This episode of “Behind the Headlines” is part of a series of shows on education during COVID.

Bar seating, later hours and more capacity for restaurants are all possibilities in Health Directive 18, which should be effective late next week.

Friends and colleagues talk about the irrepressible good sport and hard worker who had just begun his life of service. 

Second day of vaccine appointments canceled.

Those 190 cases come from 4,253 tests, giving the day a positivity rate of 4.5%.

Given what we actually know about COVID spread and what we should value, it’s never felt right to me that I could sit inside a restaurant dining room but my kids couldn’t sit inside a classroom.

The beleaguered Shelby County Health Department simply cannot effectively manage the monumental effort needed to distribute vaccines. We need someone to take charge and lead. Someone who will get things done, without excuses.

Dr. J. Barton Williams did not know he had COVID; antibody was present in his blood, doctors say.

All Thursday appointments run through the Health Department have been postponed a week.

The day’s positivity rate hovered around 8%. 

The letter to pastors and congregations from seven council members points to a racial disparity in the virus and death rates from the virus as well as testing that is now surfacing in vaccination numbers for the county. 

The Appling City Cove vaccination site remains the closest site for Northeast Shelby County as suburbs in that area seek a location to serve their citizens.

Collierville and Germantown hope students may help offset costs and staffing needs at the Germantown Baptist Church regional vaccine site.

As the public continues to voice its frustration with the local COVID-19 vaccine process, Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter says she understands the frustration and that the ‘buck stops’ with the Health Department. Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris declined to comment.

UTHSC confirms it has identified two variant strains of the virus in Shelby County.

The Shelby County Health Department announced Tuesday it would have 700 appointments for the second dose of coronavirus vaccine available this week. Within 15 minutes, all 700 available slots were filled.

Around 9:30 a.m. the Health Department said it would administer second doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at Germantown Baptist Church on Friday.

The resolution, approved Monday, Feb. 8, in a unanimous vote, isn’t binding on the state. But it calls on the state to move teachers up in the vaccination line as a condition for reopening the state’s largest school system.

According to the latest Shelby County Health Department data, close to 60,000 people in Shelby County have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose.