Letters to the Editor: ‘I am proud of our Shelby County Health Department’
Letter writer Barbara Holden Nixon praises the Shelby Health Department’s management of vaccine distribution at Lindenwood Christian Church. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
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‘Many thanks to Dr. Alisa Haushalter and her team for upholding these values in the midst of a health care crisis,’ Barbara Holden Nixon writes.
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