The first day of school in August 2019 would flunk 2020’s course on social distancing: teachers and students high-fiving, packed close and bent down to elementary schooler eye level, sharing big smiles and welcoming students back to the classroom before an assembly in the cafeteria where students barely left 6 inches of space between one… Read More
With more businesses back open, more people are venturing back out across Shelby County. FOX13 talked with doctors tracking the number of new COVID-19 cases that occur during the reopening phases. Wednesday, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center doctors said the number of new cases is where they predicted it would be. But they… Read More
As we continue to move through the coronavirus pandemic, Memorial Day weekend saw some parts of the country rush back to beaches and water parks. Here in the Mid-South we went out to local parks and, for the most part, saw people keeping their distance and wearing their masks.
On Friday, Capt. Anja Dabelic, a doctor and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, on behalf of the president of the United States, gave military promotions to four of our medical students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine.
Isolation is the cornerstone of addiction. Not surprisingly, addiction is thriving under COVID-19 “Shelter at Home” policies. In Shelby County for the month of April we have seen a jump in opioid overdoses by more than one third and a doubling in opioid overdose deaths compared to approximately the same time period last year. Municipalities… Read More
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, there is still much we don’t know about the disease. But doctors around the world are racing to examine worrying reports of COVID-19 affecting the brain. Individual reports have shown strokes, brain swelling, and general brain damage occurring in patients with the disease, raising a serious question: Are the… Read More
Precautions against spreading the coronavirus, including physical distancing and working from home, have transformed the work of academic research teams across the country. That’s especially the case for scholars who conduct behavioral research, like us: Danielle Arigo specializes in research promoting healthy behaviors like physical activity, Ilana Graetz studies medication adherence for women with breast… Read More
Be like Mike and wear a mask — sort of. Ahead of the upcoming three-day Memorial Day weekend for many, the local pandemic response team is doubling down on Phase 2 social distancing reminders — along with a few basketball analogies.
