In split vote, Shelby County decides to distribute COVID test kits
Christ Community Health Services staff members collect nasal swabs during a walk-up coronavirus testing on September 17, 2020 at Orange Mound Health Center. The test are expected to arrive at the Shelby County Health Department in the next four weeks. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Three county commissioners voted against the $1.44 million purchase of 180,000 tests in 90 kits with two tests a piece. One cited comments by Dr. Ben Carson on Fox News earlier this week complaining that more tests would mean a rise in COVID cases.
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Shelby County Commission COVID testing Dr. Michelle Taylor Mick Wright Edmund Ford Jr. Tami Sawyer Brandon MorrisonBill Dries on demand
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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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