A young orthopedic surgeon with OrthoSouth who died early Monday, Feb. 8, may be the nation’s first case of an adult who died of a delayed immune response to COVID and had received the vaccine. Dr. J. Barton Williams died early Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. He was 37.
A week after the U.K. variant was sequenced in Shelby County, researchers now confirm the Brazilian strain is also circulating here. Both are considered more contagious strains of COVID-19.“This reflects that this is a world disease and the variants are going to come to the United States,” said Dr. Scott Strome, executive dean of the… Read More
Union University and University of Tennessee Health Science Center students could soon help with vaccine distribution at the Germantown Baptist Church site.
Thousands of people are getting COVID vaccines each week in Shelby County because a groundswell of medical workers signed up to volunteer. Photos show volunteers wearing UTHSC shirts.
A highly suspicious sample of COVID-19 found in Shelby County is the UK variant strain B.1.1.7, according to University of Tennessee Health Science Center officials. The sample was sequenced in the regional biocontainment lab on campus and has been sent to Nashville for confirmation. “The hamburger is already made; they are just putting a little… Read More
The big metal letters on the normally vacant building at 2355 Appling City Cove read “Motor Vehicle Inspection. ”But the volunteers in orange T-shirts and lab coats Friday, Jan. 29, were focused on drivers and passengers in the lines of cars going through the six bays at what was once a city auto inspection station.
The pandemic has muted what the public hears about the still-raging opioid crisis, its desperation and deaths hovering like a silent virus. In Shelby County, 416 people died of opioid overdoses in 2020, 73 more than in 2019, itself a record year.
When it’s time to vaccinate school-age children and their teachers across Shelby County for the COVID-19 virus, teachers will be the first to get the vaccine.
