Shortly after the Centers for Disease Control announced Thursday, May 13, that vaccinated Americans could return to normal, ditching the masks in almost all situations, including large gatherings, Shelby County government said Health Directive No. 21, set to go into effect Saturday, may be in for a rewrite.
Shelby County officials said Tuesday that they plan to remove business restrictions and make the county’s mask mandate and health directive primarily “recommendations” rather than requirements next week.
Two children were vaccinated Feb. 3 at a vaccine site run by the City of Memphis and University Clinical-Health, which is affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. A mother was able to make appointments for herself as well as her 13-year-old and 8-year-old children at the Appling Road Emissions vaccination site, said… Read More
As hundreds of eligible Shelby County residents received their COVID-19 vaccine at the old Appling inspection station on Feb. 3, two children were also vaccinated that day. An incident investigation report shows a volunteer immunized the children “because they had appointments and completed consent forms.” After the children were vaccinated, the person running the Appling… Read More
The Tennessee Department of Health examined the cold chain for COVID-19 doses given between Dec. 28 and Feb. 24 here and found no disruption that would harm the doses, according Dr. Lisa Piercey, health commissioner.
As research into genetic causes of disease began to grow, Le Bonheur Pediatrician-in- Chief Jon McCullers, MD, knew it was time to start building a pediatric DNA biorepository. So in 2015, Le Bonheur’s Children’s Foundation Research Institute (CFRI) created the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative and began collecting DNA samples from hospitalized children at… Read More
As research into genetic causes of disease began to grow, Le Bonheur Pediatrician-in- Chief Jon McCullers, MD, knew it was time to start building a pediatric DNA biorepository. So in 2015, Le Bonheur’s Children’s Foundation Research Institute (CFRI) created the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative and began collecting DNA samples from hospitalized children at… Read More
Dr. Jon McCullers, associate dean in the College of Medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, made this case in a March 3 column, writing that we were likely already in “the early stages of a pandemic with a novel coronavirus” and that it would “almost certainly” emerge from hiding in Memphis in the… Read More
