Overall, a total of 94,664 total doses were administered in Shelby County. At least 69,557 people in Shelby County received one vaccine dose; 25,107 people have received both COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to Health Department data.
The County Commission Scorecard takes a look at votes from the Feb. 8 session.
Second day of vaccine appointments canceled.
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.
All Thursday appointments run through the Health Department have been postponed a week.
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.
UTHSC confirms it has identified two variant strains of the virus in Shelby County.
The project will widen a floodplain north of Big Creek for use as a recreational area with trails when the creek is low.
The delay by the Shelby County Commission also shows there may be a rift between commissioner Edmund Ford Jr. and his father, City Council member Edmund Ford Sr., on the issue.
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.
Shelby County Commissioners vote Monday, Feb. 8, on first-phase funding of $5.9 million to start a Millington project that creates a broader flood plain for Big Creek and doubles as a recreational area when flood waters are low.
Someone has been dumping dead horses, cows and deer on county land not far from a public trail along the Wolf River near Shelby Farms. Investigators can’t figure out who.
Gov. Bill Lee talked with SCS Superintendent Joris Ray about potentially returning children to classes by Feb. 15. Dozens of Tennessee counties have progressed to Phase 1b, which includes teachers in the vaccination priority list.
In early data of vaccination rates among people 75 and over, so few Latino people have been vaccinated their percentage of the whole is 0.4%.
While no other lab has confirmed the case yet, local experts say the cluster of people around the suspected case could quickly move it to community transmission.
Discussion of Shelby County increasing vaccine sites countywide includes a possibility of Frayser. The Health Department already has a first-dose location at the Whitehaven Center of Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Health Department survey will allow positive case investigation to happen online instead of in phone interviews.
Collierville and Germantown staff, along with Shelby County Health Department, opened the suburban site on Tuesday, the first one operating outside of Memphis. The Germantown Baptist Church location is for second doses only.
Final walk throughs were taking place Monday as the county prepares for the first vaccination site outside Memphis.
People are asked to not come hours early and have proof of their appointment, but the lines were long once again at the Pipkin Building on Thursday.
Appointments at big-box stores will be made through the Health Department.
Capacity at Pipkin doubled Wednesday; late in the day, the lines were running smoothly.
The County Commission Scorecard tracks how a seven-month-old police reform proposal moved from being one vote short of the seven necessary for final approval to 10 votes across party lines this week.
As people wait hours for their vaccine appointment time, they end up leaving without a shot in the arm and a head full of frustration.