Shelby County’s COVID-19 test positivity rate is the highest it’s been all pandemic. This week, the Shelby County Health Department (SCHD) reports more than 40 percent of all COVID-19 tests given are coming back positive. One infectious disease doctor says a COVID-19 test positivity rate at 41.4 percent is uncharted waters. Another says a positivity… Read More
Inside Memphis Business honors the very best in local innovation. Meet one of the four winners this year. Professor Michael Whitt’s innovation in virus research from two decades ago has been innovatively adapted to help develop Covid-19 vaccines. Whitt currently serves as the associate dean of the Office of Medical Education in the school’s College… Read More
A new drive-through COVID-19 testing center is opening in the medical district Wednesday as demand for testing soars. Reported infections in Memphis surpassed 21,000 active reported cases, Tuesday data showed, and a third of all tests in Tennessee are turning up positive. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and partner University Clinical Health will operate the testing site… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will hold its 2021 Winter Commencement ceremony Monday, December 13, at 11 a.m., at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.
The University of Louisville board of trustees hired provost Lori Stewart Gonzalez as its new interim president at a special meeting Monday morning, just four days after President Neeli Bendapudi’s sudden acceptance of the top position at Penn State University. News of Bendapudi’s departure from U of L was a shock to many on Thursday, despite the board… Read More
Dr. Claudette Shephard is an OB-GYN specializing in girls and young women. Her work with patients’ sexual development and future fertility has an impact on the community at large. She has a 30-year career in medicine, and her practice draws patients from West Tennessee, North Mississippi, Eastern Arkansas, and the Missouri Bootheel. She also provides gynecology services… Read More
I’ve always struggled to relate to the ways that Black youths memorialize loved ones and peers who wind up wearing a morgue sheet before donning a graduation robe. The “Rest in Peace” T-shirts, with images of the dead surrounded by angels and peering from silkscreened cotton, seem to be trivializing the killings, not discouraging them. “I think that for a… Read More
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been detected in Mississippi and local health experts say it’s only a matter of time before it is found in Shelby County. Researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science center are using sequence testing to detect the variant.
