In short order, the city of Memphis intends to be administering 40,000 to 50,000 COVID vaccine doses a week, three or four times the current level, and doing it quickly and efficiently.
Meanwhile, infectious disease expert and University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) faculty member Dr. Manoj Jain told reporters Thursday that people shouldn’t be so worried about second doses being distributed exactly three or four weeks after the first. Even if someone were to only receive the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, the scant… Read More
A Memphis medical expert believes the winter blast could help reduce COVID-19 transmission. UTHSC College of Medicine Dean Scott Strome said that more people are stuck inside because of the weather, and fewer people are gathering.
Dr. Scott Strome, executive dean of the College of Medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is blaming the deceased doctor’s sudden onset of MIS as an immunological response to a previous COVID infection, not a reaction to the vaccine. Dr. Threlkeld went along with the theory, dismissing the deceased doctor’s multiple negative COVID… Read More
Since the SARS outbreaks, “in Asian culture, it’s pretty common to wear a mask a lot,” said Dr. Scott Strome, dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Nick Hysmith, medical director of infection prevention at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor at UTHSC, says… Read More
That this weather system is so large, covering much of the southern half of the nation and flowing into the Eastern Seaboard is all the better, says Dr. Scott Strome, executive dean of the College of Medicine at UTHSC, because it has effectively halted the daily exchanges COVID needs to survive. “Nobody wants to implement… Read More
Of the many studies, one study from University of Tennessee, Knoxville released a few weeks ago is most convincing. The researchers studied two schools during the fall of 2020 in the Southeast US, following cases closely and doing regular testing. Of the 3,500 students and staff followed 137 cases where identified and when detailed tracing… Read More
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.
