Did you know only 5% of the doctors in the United States are African American men? Local 24 News Weeknight Anchor Katina Rankin spoke to one Black doctor who says the narrative must change. He offers some solutions. Plus, two colleges have joined forces to offer free scholarships to African American students that want to… Read More
Wednesday, David Sweat with the Shelby County Health Department said there was cluster of more than 20 cases last month within the University of Memphis’ athletics program of the highly contagious, COVID-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom. Wednesday, Local 24 News also learned area labs detected five times as many COVID-19 variant cases… Read More
“Very confident, very confident that things will be smoother,” Mary Taylor said. Monday, Taylor spent part of her 86th birthday getting her second and final COVID-19 vaccine dose at the Pipkin Building under new management – the City of Memphis. “The bad news that has been associated with the county, and with the problems and… Read More
According to the state of Tennessee, only 1 in 3 people over 70 have been vaccinated. “We need to make sure if you don’t have a computer and you don’t have a car, you can access the vaccine if you would like to get it. And that’s been a challenge,” said Dr. Scott Strome with… Read More
“Once we find it in the community, there are already cases we don’t know about,” Dr. Steve Threlkeld with Baptist Memorial Hospital said. That’s the reality for Shelby County doctors, as they closely monitor the potential impact of the United Kingdom – or U.K. – strain of the coronavirus. Scientists at the University of Tennessee… Read More
“From my perspective, it’s 100% for sure,” Dr. Scott Strome with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center said.That’s how confident those with the UT Health Science Center are that the highly contagious, UK COVID-19 variant strain is now in the Memphis area. Scientists discovered the sample Monday at UTHSC’s regional biocontainment lab, one of… Read More
The Memphis Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) has selected Alisa Haushalter, DNP, RN., Director of the Shelby County Health Department, as its Communicator of the Year for 2020. The 2020 Communicator of the Year Award reflects Dr. Haushalter’s unflappable courage in leading the community throughout the pandemic, always with eye toward… Read More
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have played a supporting role in the development of COVID-19 vaccines. To examine the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine during development, the company needed a way to test the inhibitory effects of the antibodies generated after vaccination on virus infection. However, to work with SARS-CoV-2 requires… Read More
