With cases ratcheting up 20 and 30 people a day in Shelby County, the rate of transmission is still thought to be a month or two from plateauing, which means health experts are pounding home social-distancing warnings.
In the fight to contain coronavirus, governments in Memphis and Shelby County are working closely together. But in the bigger, three-state region around Memphis, no joint strategy has emerged and communication among governments appears limited.
As the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic establishes itself in the United States, more details regarding the clinical course of those infected with the novel coronavirus overseas are emerging. Common symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath are touted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as clues that a person… Read More
If the notion of a dystopian society picking who should live and who should die during a viral pandemic upsets you, you really shouldn’t listen to this week’s edition of The Extra Podcast. Or maybe just skip forward to minute 13. Dr. Jon McCullers, an expert on infectious diseases at UTHSC as well as pediatrician… Read More
By some measures, as Memphis finishes its first week of a significant shutdown, the state of the coronavirus pandemic locally is not too bad: There have been no deaths. There are only a handful of coronavirus patients hospitalized. There are about 500 empty hospital beds in the metro Memphis area. There are “thousands of tests”… Read More
The Shelby County Health Department said we are learning more about the spread of COVID-19 in the area because we’re testing more people. We’re also learning about new lab capacity at UT Health Science Center that will significantly cut down on the turnaround time of some of those COVID-19 tests, which currently can take four… Read More
President Donald Trump has said he’d like to see the federal government pursue drugs used to treat malaria – chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine – possibly in conjunction with antibiotics, as a treatment for COVID-19.
An in-house coronavirus testing lab at University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis is growing quickly, the head of the medical school said, and might soon have the capacity to test hundreds of samples per day from medical providers around the area.
