Parts of Tennessee might reopen next month, but that’s not likely for Shelby County, where cases of COVID-19 have continued to rise. On Monday, Dr. Alisa Haushalter, director of the Shelby County Health Department, walked through some of the things that will need to happen before her agency is likely to lift its directive that… Read More
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said he spoke Tuesday with mayors from Shelby County and the state’s other large urban areas.
On March 17th medical students across the country were suddenly pulled out of hospitals due to the pandemic.
“This is deadly,” Richelle Williams says sternly. The 67-year-old New Jersey funeral home owner has been explaining to the virtual room of Black women from all over the country how fatal “our people’s” ignorance has been. Thus far, Williams has not been burying just one person in a family, but entire families, week after week.… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic might be a difficult concept for parents to explain to their kids. To help, medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center made a push to educate children on the complexity of COVID-19.
At one end of the spectrum there is the risk for anxiety, depression and PTSD. For a few, there might even be the thought of taking this societal shutdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic into their own hands and tapping out.
As physicians working during the coronavirus pandemic, my wife and I have adopted a new routine when arriving home from our respective hospitals: the “garage drop and dash.” We remove our shoes in the garage, deposit our clothes in the laundry, and head directly to the shower, eschewing any interaction with our children, dog or… Read More
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.
