For more than a month, projection models have forecast dire outcomes for Memphis-area hospitals — too few beds, intensive care units and ventilators for COVID-19 patients. With that overwhelmed medical system came death on a broad scale.
Mayors from across Shelby County, including the six suburbs, are scheduled to appear at the noon coronavirus briefing by the local COVID-19 task force, an indication that the governments could present a unified front on the steps to re-opening part of the area, including businesses.
Call it phase two of the COVID-19 pandemic in Memphis – a tentative stabilization and focus on containment.
Four physicians have been meeting on Zoom every day this week to come up with a plan to reopen the state’s largest cities in the midst of a pandemic.
Beginning Tuesday, American Esoteric Laboratories in Memphis will begin processing blood samples to see if people who have recovered from COVID-19 have developed the antibodies that may give them immunity.
Health care providers will be busy Friday setting up signs, traffic cones and a big tent, turning another Memphis-area parking lot into another bulwark against the coronavirus. A new COVID-19 drive-thru testing station is opening at Christ Community Health Services in Hickory Hill. The faith-based health care provider will open another at its clinic in… Read More
You have a fever and a cough. How do you know if this is the flu or the new coronavirus that is sweeping across continents and upheaving travel and daily plans of millions if not billions of individuals? The answer is simple. If you live in the United States as of Feb. 1, 2020, there… Read More
