As COVID-19 cases increase in the Mid-South, a leading infectious disease doctor says a key medicine to treat the virus isn’t being prescribed nearly enough.
On the eve of the much-anticipated return of Beale Street Music Festival, the focus is on attention to detail at Liberty Park in Midtown Memphis, the site of this year’s event.
This week, Dr. Mazumder talked about the uptick in the new subvariant of omicron BA.2, including if she is concerned about another COVID wave here in the Mid-South.
The man challenging Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris in the upcoming primary election says Harris showed a “lack of leadership” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Just as several cities and departments in Mississippi drop some of the last COVID-19 mandates and restrictions, a new variant is on the rise across the pond.
Memphis-Shelby County Joint COVID-19 Task Force is giving an update on COVID-19 in their last routine briefing since the first case was reported two years ago.
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo came to Memphis Tuesday to highlight how Memphis and Shelby County utilized Emergency Rental Assistance Programs.
Many portions of the country are on the road to an endemic as health leaders claim we are in a new stage of the fight against COVID-19. That means changes to safety recommendations, some of which have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic nearly two years ago.
Face coverings will be only required on transportation networks and in healthcare settings such as University Health Services and University Counseling Center, regardless of vaccination status.
In early February, Courtney McWayne noticed that her energic four-year-old soon was fatigued all the time and would only get up to eat, that was when she knew something was wrong.
Chronic Illness and Long COVID Expert Ashok Gupta joined Action News 5′s Andrew Douglas at the digital desk to talk about the top symptoms for those with long COVID.
The former lead of Shelby County’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is speaking to Action News 5 about the lawsuit she filed against Shelby County. Dr. Judy Martin said she never falsified any information about expired vaccine doses, and believes this lawsuit is her only option in clearing her name.
New cases and hospitalizations, which reached record or near-record levels at the height of the Omicron surge, continue to decline in all three Mid-South states and Shelby County.
Shelby County’s COVID-19 death toll passed a grim milestone over the weekend with the Shelby County Health Department reporting 3,004 virus-related deaths.
The Shelby County Health Department is partnering with the Amigos Foundation to host the first of several vaccination events geared toward the Hispanic community.
Shelby County Health Department reported another drop in the weekly positivity rate for the fifth week in a row following a massive surge of omicron cases.
