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”Antigen is more like scanning the haystack while PCR is like finding a needle in a haystack,” Dr. Lisa Piercey, state health commissioner, seen here with Gov. Bill Lee in March. (Mark Humphrey/AP file)

”Antigen is more like scanning the haystack while PCR is like finding a needle in a haystack,” Dr. Lisa Piercey, state health commissioner, seen here with Gov. Bill Lee in March. (Mark Humphrey/AP file)

The Pandemic

Memphis pushing ‘Assurance’ testing for COVID-19; state wants ‘quick’ testing

Tennessee began reporting a new set of COVID-19 numbers this week that indicate a significant, if somewhat confusing, shift in efforts to slow the...

David WatersOctober 26, 2020

The Pandemic

Poplar Healthcare serves as real time example of how to mobilize during pandemic; provides key support to Memphis

Local lab built its own coronavirus test

David WatersOctober 9, 2020

Education

Seminary accepts challenge of protecting students while teaching them to serve those with potentially fatal virus

“We are not the first people of faith to have lived in a time of pandemic.”

David WatersAugust 21, 2020

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The Pandemic

Dine in or Carry out? 5 public health experts share how they’re living through COVID-19

What daily precautions are infectious disease docs taking and why?

David WatersJuly 25, 2020

Treadwell Elementary School kindergartners (in a file photo) dance. “The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives, particularly among our most vulnerable students and in Black, brown and poor communities,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)

Treadwell Elementary School kindergartners (in a file photo) dance. “The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives, particularly among our most vulnerable students and in Black, brown and poor communities,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)

Education

What happens when a Student or teacher tests positive for COVID-19? Schools’ Plans are vague

Memphis area school districts defer details to understaffed health dept.

David WatersJuly 22, 2020

Volunteers from Collierville First Baptist Church cheer for Collierville High School graduates driving through to pick up their caps and gowns at the school on May 7. “Going to school can expose children to greater health risks, but so can staying home,” said Le Bonheur Children's Hospital pediatrician Jason Yaun. “Many parents are facing very difficult choices.” (Daily Memphian file)

Volunteers from Collierville First Baptist Church cheer for Collierville High School graduates driving through to pick up their caps and gowns at the school on May 7. “Going to school can expose children to greater health risks, but so can staying home,” said Le Bonheur Children's Hospital pediatrician Jason Yaun. “Many parents are facing very difficult choices.” (Daily Memphian file)

Memphis Kids

COVID-19 Catch-22: Study of chronic trauma says some memphis kids may be safer at school

Children of poverty, trauma, face adverse childhood experiences and virus

David WatersJuly 11, 2020

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The Pandemic

A Digital Learning Curve as Shelby County Schools Get More Online in Fall

Officials pass an $11 million plan to provide tablets and laptops and even create Internet hotspots to help bridge the “digital divide’’ among Shelby...

Natasha SenjanovicJune 22, 2020

On January 27th, 2020, Grounded launched a pilot curriculum program at East High School in Memphis, bringing artists, luminaries and partners together with over 500 students, faculty and staff members. The entire school loaded into buses and took a field trip to Malco Paradiso to view Grounded’s unreleased film, “Me and the Light.” After the screening, The Grounded team spent the entire day with the students at East High connecting with them, engaging in discussion and sharing their own forms of creative expression. To close the day’s events, East High students participated in a movement arts exercise to promote peace led by Memphis Jookers Lil Buck and Marico “Dr. Rico” Flake. (Photo by Andrea Morales)

On January 27th, 2020, Grounded launched a pilot curriculum program at East High School in Memphis, bringing artists, luminaries and partners together with over 500 students, faculty and staff members. The entire school loaded into buses and took a field trip to Malco Paradiso to view Grounded’s unreleased film, “Me and the Light.” After the screening, The Grounded team spent the entire day with the students at East High connecting with them, engaging in discussion and sharing their own forms of creative expression. To close the day’s events, East High students participated in a movement arts exercise to promote peace led by Memphis Jookers Lil Buck and Marico “Dr. Rico” Flake. (Photo by Andrea Morales)

Education

Lil Buck, Drumma Boy, other artists help East High students ‘Be What a Bullet Can’t Be’

Music, film stars help teacher, students with online learning in pandemic

David WatersJune 21, 2020

A Team Rubicon volunteer from Boston holds a COVID-19 test in the emergency room of the Kayenta Health Center on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Ariz., on April 23, 2020. The Navajo reservation has some of the highest rates of coronavirus in the country. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

A Team Rubicon volunteer from Boston holds a COVID-19 test in the emergency room of the Kayenta Health Center on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Ariz., on April 23, 2020. The Navajo reservation has some of the highest rates of coronavirus in the country. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Faith

Memphis woman moves to Navajo Nation to battle COVID-19: ‘It’s not what I do but why’

Public health official follows science and faith to center of pandemic

David WatersJune 7, 2020

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“Utter Lack of Accountability” at Some Nursing Homes as COVID Spreads

As the coronavirus spreads through Memphis nursing homes, it’s taking a huge toll: 51 deaths so far. But an analysis by the Institute for...

Marc PerrusquiaJune 3, 2020

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