The Shelby County Health Department said we are learning more about the spread of COVID-19 in the area because we’re testing more people. We’re also learning about new lab capacity at UT Health Science Center that will significantly cut down on the turnaround time of some of those COVID-19 tests, which currently can take four… Read More
An in-house coronavirus testing lab at University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis is growing quickly, the head of the medical school said, and might soon have the capacity to test hundreds of samples per day from medical providers around the area.
Coronavirus cases reported in Mississippi have more than doubled since Monday, an increase that most likely reflects the limited amount of tests being conducted, a medical expert in Memphis said.
After Tennessee’s first confirmed case of the Coronavirus was announced on Thursday in Williamson County (south of Nashville), Memphis health officials are on the alert in the event the virus appears here. But Dr. Scott Strome, executive dean at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), says talk of the contagion reaching Memphis is still speculative.
Dr. Scott E. Strome is the new executive dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center…A Harvard-trained physician and cancer researcher who co-founded the Baltimore biomedical startup Gliknik Inc., Strome arrives in Memphis at a peculiar time in the history of American medicine.
