Half of county is COVID vaxxed, only 17% have booster shot
Members of the Gonzales family (mother Aracely, left), Areli and Andrea) enter mobile community vaccination unit to receive their choice of COVID vaccine at Carpenter Art Garden in Binghampton on Aug. 12, 2021. Shelby County is now at a 50% vaccination rate. (Ziggy Mack/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Health Department director Dr. Michelle Taylor also complained about employers requiring a test for workers who have quarantined for the recommended five days to return to work after initially testing positive for COVID.
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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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