New cases and tests reported have largely stabilized over the past month in Shelby County. From Feb. 20 to Saturday, the Health Department reported an average of 134 new coronavirus cases and 2,298 test results each day yielding a 5.8% positivity rate… Dr. Scott Strome is executive dean of the College of Medicine and vice… Read More
Dr. Fauci and other medical experts are worried about another spike in COVID-19 cases after seeing states, like Mississippi, lift restrictions and mask mandates. UTHSC Dean Scott Strome agreed and believed we should reopen once 70 to 80 percent of the population is vaccinated. He expects there to be another wave but it won’t be… 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
According to the state of Tennessee, only 1 in 3 people over 70 have been vaccinated. “We need to make sure if you don’t have a computer and you don’t have a car, you can access the vaccine if you would like to get it. And that’s been a challenge,” said Dr. Scott Strome with… 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.
