First-dose Pfizer appointments are available for Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chester Anderson Training Center.

The effort to remove the judge who ruled last year that the COVID-19 pandemic was a valid reason for Tennesseans to vote by mail failed Tuesday, March 9, in a House subcommittee.

Hall will serve up to 90 days and will also help conduct the search for new permanent director.

When state investigation is over, state Health Commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey says she will report to the citizens of Shelby County. 

Bartlett’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen authorized Mayor Keith McDonald to enter an agreement with Lakeland and Arlington to open a joint vaccination location at its meeting Tuesday.

“This will allow us to get rid of a black eye that exists right in the heart of our Downtown,” said the DMC’s interim president.

To build capacity, the City of Memphis expects to run five or six fixed vaccination sites plus one or two pop-up locations in neighborhoods where access is an issue.

The Shelby County Health Department reported fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, March 9.

Shelby County Health Department reported fewer than 50 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.

UTHSC plans a baby boon, Arlington’s future will be decided in court (not on the court) and why we can now go maskless. Maybe. 

Dr. Manoj Jain has spent decades tracking viral and bacterial killers in Memphis and around the world.

Wide-ranging discussion includes safety of vaccines that may have spoiled in the field.

Commission also approves a goal of giving locally-owned small businesses 20% of county government contracts and purchases.

State Health commissioner Lisa Piercey said she won’t have a completed report by Friday, March 12.

The bill in Nashville would outlaw partisan primary elections in Shelby and Davidson counties – the state’s two biggest concentrations of Democratic voters.

Demand for child care far exceeds supply in Tennessee, but a bill passed Monday, March 8, by the state Senate could give state employees more options.

A resolution with nearly unanimous House GOP support is calling for proceedings that could remove Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle.

The new CDC guidance does not include children.

According to the Tennessee Department of Health, as of Sunday, more than 14% of people in Tennessee have received at least one coronavirus vaccine dose.

Christ Community is offering vaccines on South Third Street.

New law takes aim at third-graders, Tigers head to Fort Worth after heartbreak in Houston, and your plants might not be dead. 

Those in line Saturday were receiving the Pfizer vaccine. More than 1,100 doses were available to those who made appointments.

It only took a dozen days after that March 8 news conference for Mayor Jim Strickland to invoke the first civil emergency order in Memphis in more than a generation, closing gyms, bars and indoor restaurant dining.

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Year 1 of the novel coronavirus pandemic, by the numbers

The regular Monday session of the commission will be followed by a special Friday meeting with Tennessee Health commissioner Dr. Lisa Piercey on problems that led the state to shift control of COVID vaccine distribution from the county to the city of Memphis.

Statistically, COVID-19 is more likely to claim the lives of people 65 and older than any other age group. But apart from that, the pandemic has introduced layers of complications for seniors, especially those living alone and/or on fixed incomes.