On May 16, when the former site of The Commercial Appeal opens as an alternate-care facility for COVID-19 patients, those who require intensive care will be housed on the third floor, in what used to be the sunlit newsroom.
Four physicians have been meeting on Zoom every day this week to come up with a plan to reopen the state’s largest cities in the midst of a pandemic.
The state of Tennessee will soon lift the stay-at-home orders put in place in response to COVID-19. This action leaves Tennesseans with important choices to make for themselves and their communities.
Not every university lab has a robot capable of turning out 1,500 molecular samples a day next to a pathologist who’s also an expert in lab regulation. On March 13, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center did.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he spoke Tuesday with mayors from Shelby County and the state’s other large urban areas.
At one end of the spectrum there is the risk for anxiety, depression and PTSD. For a few, there might even be the thought of taking this societal shutdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic into their own hands and tapping out.
As physicians working during the coronavirus pandemic, my wife and I have adopted a new routine when arriving home from our respective hospitals: the “garage drop and dash.” We remove our shoes in the garage, deposit our clothes in the laundry, and head directly to the shower, eschewing any interaction with our children, dog or… Read More
Beginning Tuesday, American Esoteric Laboratories in Memphis will begin processing blood samples to see if people who have recovered from COVID-19 have developed the antibodies that may give them immunity.
