One year after it was originally filed, Tennessee is joining a petition with 21 other state attorneys general wanting strike down a COVID-19 vaccine mandate at health care facilities.
The Shelby County Health Department is offering free flu vaccinations at no charge during a special statewide “FightFluTN 2022″ vaccination event on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
Nearly 25% of children ages 5-11 in Shelby County have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The Shelby County Health Department is now offering booster shots to that age group.
SCHD says the booster can only be given to children who have completed the initial two-dose series of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at least two months ago.
Dr. Mazumder talked about the B.A. 4 and B.A. 5 COVID-19 variants, along with the transmission rate and effectiveness of the vaccine against the 2 variants.
As coronavirus cases climb once again to daily averages not seen in nearly four months, experts brace for more stress on a health care system still recovering from the last wave.
Dr. Julie Morita, Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talked about the key steps for the potential rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine for kids under kids and addressed concerns from parents.
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.
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