For weeks, healthcare professionals have lacked the ability to rapidly test for COVID-19, but now the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s own testing lab is up and running—with capacity to process around 1,000 tests per day.
Dr. Robert Davis (Governor’s Chair and Director of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Center for Biomedical Informatics): “What we’re trying to do is create the infrastructure for innovation in the near-term future. There has been great success over the past couple of years building a fully consented biorepository at the University of Tennessee… Read More
10% of people tested so far in Shelby County have been positive for COVID-19. As of Friday morning, 2,218 people had been tested for COVID-19 in Shelby County, according to the health department. That puts the tests coming back positive at 10.05%, with 223 people testing positive in Shelby County.
With cases ratcheting up 20 and 30 people a day in Shelby County, the rate of transmission is still thought to be a month or two from plateauing, which means health experts are pounding home social-distancing warnings.
In the fight to contain coronavirus, governments in Memphis and Shelby County are working closely together. But in the bigger, three-state region around Memphis, no joint strategy has emerged and communication among governments appears limited.
As the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic establishes itself in the United States, more details regarding the clinical course of those infected with the novel coronavirus overseas are emerging. Common symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath are touted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as clues that a person… Read More
If the notion of a dystopian society picking who should live and who should die during a viral pandemic upsets you, you really shouldn’t listen to this week’s edition of The Extra Podcast. Or maybe just skip forward to minute 13. Dr. Jon McCullers, an expert on infectious diseases at UTHSC as well as pediatrician… Read More
By some measures, as Memphis finishes its first week of a significant shutdown, the state of the coronavirus pandemic locally is not too bad: There have been no deaths. There are only a handful of coronavirus patients hospitalized. There are about 500 empty hospital beds in the metro Memphis area. There are “thousands of tests”… Read More
