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.
Eliza is a vibrant, exuberant and opinionated 4-year-old, according to mother, Rachael Boer. She looks healthy, but she has primary ciliary dyskinesia, a disorder characterized by chronic respiratory tract infections and sinus problems, among other issues. She’s had it since the day she was born, the same day her parents adopted her.
The federal government is now adding supercomputers to its toolset in the hunt for ways to stop COVID-19. According to an announcement by President Trump Sunday, a newly established COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium will bring together industry, academic institutions and federal laboratories to try to identify or create candidate compounds that might prevent or… Read More
The quiet that descends on the city now as nonessential businesses are closed is imperative for the fight in what is still an early epidemic here, according to the head of the health department.
