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Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Paige Hill
The judge said the ruling would take effect immediately, according to court documents.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Region 8 Newsdesk
The Arkansas Department of Health is monitoring the spread of COVID-19 daily.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Action News 5 Staff
The county’s weekly positivity rate made another drop for the week of September 12. The rate is now 10.4% down from the previous week at 12.8%.
Updated: 15 hours ago
|By Action News 5 Staff
The Tennessee Department of Health is now offering booster shots to specific populations have interested in taking the additional dose.
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Updated: 18 hours ago
|By WLBT.com Staff
The number of presumed positive coronavirus cases in Mississippi continues to rise.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 9:28 PM CDT
|By Parker King
Thursday’s headliner, The Black Keys, brought an extra tool to the security protocol--- COVID-19 sniffing dogs.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Kelly Roberts
There may be a small light starting to appear at the end of the tunnel. After two months of surging COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations the numbers are starting to come back down.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 2:06 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
A benefit concert is being held to support MPD Officer Alex Shindler’s family after he died from COVID-19 on Monday.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 1:07 PM CDT
|By Shyra Sherfield
City of Memphis COO Doug McGowen says it was due to a lack of local demand for the vaccine.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2021 at 11:59 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
The Shelby County COVID-19 death toll surpassed 2,000 Thursday morning with ten additional deaths reported within the last 24 hours.
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Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 9:49 PM CDT
|By Kelli Cook
Leaders from Methodist Lebonheur and Baptist Memorial said they were grateful for the $4 million each that they were approved for.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 8:32 PM CDT
|By Kelly Roberts
Nearly two months after the start of school, some Desoto County parents are still begging for more safety measures to be put in place. Now close to 50 pediatricians are offering to partner with Desoto County Schools to implement things like universal masking.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 2:33 PM CDT
|By Associated Press
The board that governs Mississippi’s public universities has voted to prohibit schools from requiring COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 1:20 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Stephen Trelkeld is holding a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 11:47 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
COVID-19 cases continue to drop in Shelby County, but the death toll is still on the rise.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 10:33 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff and Briseida Holguin
Senior Veterinarian Felicia Knightly says the zoo’s great apes are at the top of the list to receive the vaccine due to their relation to human beings.
Updated: Sep. 22, 2021 at 5:57 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
The theater says guests will see a few of these dogs Thursday when they enter the Black Keys concert.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 9:40 PM CDT
|By Olivia Gunn
The doctors penned an open letter to the school board.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 8:58 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
Pfizer made the announcement about its trial data Monday as we close in on a vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 5:42 PM CDT
|By Kelly Roberts
Recipients of a life-saving COVID-19 treatment may soon have to be prioritized, with vaccinated people at the end of the list.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 5:34 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff and Joyce Peterson
The solid waste division has the lowest vaccination rate among city employees with just 37 percent. The police and fire departments are both less than 50 percent vaccinated.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 2:53 PM CDT
|By Region 8 Newsdesk
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will update the public on the State of Arkansas's response to COVID-19, including the latest cases and deaths.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2021 at 12:03 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the county has seen 138,797 total cases with a death toll of 1,988.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 11:30 PM CDT
|By Kelli Cook
COVID-19 hospitalizations are going down, but vaccine hesitancy is still a major issue in the Mid-South and across the U.S.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 10:31 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
DeSoto County Schools released COVID-19 data Monday for the week of September 13 through September 17.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Olivia Gunn
A Memphis charter school student died after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 5:06 PM CDT
|By Courtney Ann Jackson
Witcher believes his billboard may have prompted the board of medical licensure adopting a Medical Misinformation or Disinformation policy.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Kelly Roberts
New data show more than 25,000 children in Tennessee have contracted COVID-19 over the past two weeks.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 3:37 PM CDT
|By Amanda Hanson
This week, Dr. Mazumder talked about the current state of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 10:28 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
There are 297 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in Shelby County with 11 additional deaths due to complications with the virus.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 9:40 AM CDT
|By Sharie Nicole
He downplayed the state’s death rate, reportedly the highest, per capita, in the country.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 6:08 AM CDT
|By By LAURAN NEERGAARD
The vaccine maker said Monday it plans to seek authorization for this age group soon in the U.S., Britain and Europe
Updated: Sep. 20, 2021 at 5:17 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
As COVID-19 continues to strain hospitals, more National Guard troops have been deployed across Tennessee to help staff overwhelmed at hospitals and medical facilities.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2021 at 10:50 PM CDT
|By Brendan Hall
COVID-19 is currently the leading cause of death for law enforcement officers nationwide.
Updated: Sep. 19, 2021 at 3:48 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
The Shelby County Health Department reported 430 new COVID-19 cases and two deaths Sunday morning.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 at 2:53 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
The Shelby County Health Department reported 719 COVID-19 cases and no deaths Saturday morning.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 at 2:27 PM CDT
|By Brandon Richard
It's been 18 months since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Shelby County. While people are once gathering in large crowds for football games and festivals, new numbers show why there's still plenty of reasons to worry.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 6:48 PM CDT
|By Arianna Poindexter
A victory tonight for three Shelby County couples who sued Tennessee Governor Bill Lee over his decision to allow parents to opt-out their kids from wearing masks at school.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 3:40 PM CDT
|By Olivia Gunn
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare released a snapshot of its COVID-19 cases Friday.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 12:51 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
Shelby County Health Department reported an additional nine COVID-19 related deaths within the last 4 hours.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 10:34 AM CDT
|By Associated Press
Mississippi has surpassed New Jersey as the state with the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.
Updated: Sep. 17, 2021 at 9:47 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
A judge granted a preliminary injunction Friday, further blocking Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s mask opt-out order.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 8:06 PM CDT
|By Region 8 Newsdesk
Several Northeast Arkansas school districts continue to report positive COVID-19 cases among their students and faculty.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 4:15 PM CDT
|By Kelly Roberts
Health leaders are cautiously optimistic COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in Shelby County are starting to decrease. What they’d like to see increase is vaccination rates in Shelby County.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 3:06 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
The mayor tested positive Friday even though he was fully vaccinated.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 2:57 PM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
It’s not every day the faces of Memphis wrestling get together, but when they do they make a statement.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 2:01 PM CDT
|By Camille Connor
With the rise of pregnant COVID-19 patients there has also been a rise in stillbirths.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 10:29 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
Shelby County is slowly inching towards its goal of having 700,000 people fully vaccinated.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2021 at 9:13 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland is doing his first interview since testing positive for COVID-19 nearly a week ago.
Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 10:12 PM CDT
|By Kelly Roberts
As some hospital numbers start to level out across the Mid-South, deaths are going up. At this point in the pandemic, one in 500 people in the United States has died of COVID-19.