As evidence piles up documenting a sudden loss of smell and/or taste as a presenting symptom of COVID-19, the call to screen for these phenomena is growing. A number of new publications show a high proportion of people infected with COVID-19 report loss of smell and/or taste, with their authors adding to the clamor to… Read More
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee visited Memphis Saturday and made two stops at important sites in the ongoing battle against COVID-19.
In Memphis and across the Mid-South, there’s good news, as more COVID-19 test are becoming available in more places.
City and county officials have said for weeks one of the keys to being able to reopen the local economy safely is added testing for COVID-19.
The University of Tennessee System has refunded over $40 million to students because of the coronavirus, UT System President Randy Boyd said Friday. At a virtual special meeting of the Board of Trustees, Boyd went over the university’s response to COVID-19, as well as discussed plans for the next several months. He also discussed the… Read More
At a meeting on Friday morning, the Board of Trustees discussed campus response to the coronavirus outbreak and UT’s plans moving forward. UT administrators have been discussing coronavirus since Feb. 28, with an official decision to transition to online classes on March 11. From March 1 to March 23, UT went from offering fewer than… Read More
Until a month ago, when Dr. Daniel Wakefield tested positive for COVID-19, he and his wife, a nurse, were watching the disease unfold in the city from the front line. Tuesday, he became part of a second front line by donating his plasma at Methodist University Hospital.
Call it phase two of the COVID-19 pandemic in Memphis – a tentative stabilization and focus on containment.
