The elderly are most at risk of severe coronavirus complications, but over the last few there’s been a growing evidence that younger, otherwise healthy people can also fall victim.
Shelby County now has 33 deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus, Alisa Haushalter, Health Department director told the County Commission in an update on Wednesday, April 15.
The COVID-19 pandemic has separated parents wondering how they are going to abide by custody and parenting agreements as people are being asked to stay home.
During today’s joint COVID-19 Task Force/Shelby County Health Department update, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced micro-loan programs — two of them — to “assist Memphis businesses experiencing hardship.”
University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center’s Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, the Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Solutions, and hospitals have taken leadership roles in COVID-19 testing, producing and delivering sanitizing products that are in severe shortage, and drug/vaccine development.
When will Memphis reopen and how will that happen? The answers involve the sometimes conflicting perspectives of health, business and political leaders. It will ultimately involve discussions between local and state leaders, with potential input from one significant wild card: President Donald Trump.
The country is shut down, the city and county are shut down. This unyielding novel coronavirus is driving every public and private narrative from Presidential press briefings that sometimes raise as many questions as they answer, to chats with friends and neighbors at least 6 feet apart.
If it were a normal school year, Vanderbilt medical students Thomas Day and Tita Peña would be spending their time at the Shade Tree Clinic, offering free medical care for Nashville’s uninsured.
