UTHSC In the Media


Mid-South coronavirus updates: Memphis Education Fund donates $150,000 to help students in need

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COVID-19 is a new strain of coronavirus and cases are spreading around the Mid-South since the virus arrived in the United States in February.


Memphis doctor donates blood plasma to help others fight coronavirus

WREG

A Mid-South doctor stepped up to donate a part of himself to help others after he recovered from COVID-19.


UTHSC students volunteer on the frontlines at COVID-19 testing sites

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Hundreds of UT Health Science Center medical and nursing students are volunteering countless hours on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.    


Stay-at-home orders may lift, but the threat persists

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The state of Tennessee will soon lift the stay-at-home orders put in place in response to COVID-19. This action leaves Tennesseans with important choices to make for themselves and their communities.  


UTHSC takes huge strides in battle to ramp up testing

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Not every university lab has a robot capable of turning out 1,500 molecular samples a day next to a pathologist who’s also an expert in lab regulation. On March 13, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center did.


As society leans on COVID-19 testing to reopen, test problems remain, says UTHSC official

The Commercial Appeal

A key medical leader involved in COVID-19 testing in Memphis says the area’s virus testing system remains so flawed that it cannot be relied upon as a tool for quick reopening of society.open, test problems remain, says UTHSC official


Memphis medical students volunteer on the front line of COVID-19 testing

WREG

As Memphis battles the coronavirus pandemic, some of those on the front lines are medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. It’s an initiative no other medical school in the United States has been allowed to do — using medical students and leading a test center.  


ORNL workers mobilize research, community support to fight COVID-19

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In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.