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Tennessee’s vaccination rate for people who work in nursing homes and assisted living facilities is among the lowest in the country, according to a new…
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Tennessee is rethinking how it distributes the COVID vaccine — shifting from an approach that divided doses based on county’s population and to one that…
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Tennessee has “soft-launched” a new phase of COVID vaccination, beginning to offer doses to anyone 55 and up or in “critical infrastructure” jobs. A state…
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More than 1 million people are newly eligible to get a COVID vaccine in Tennessee as of Monday. Roughly one in six residents qualify as part of phase 1C,…
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Tennessee counties are saying goodbye to Signup Genius. Local health departments have been relying on the free scheduling website to coordinate COVID-19…
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Metro Health officials plan to deploy “strike teams” to vaccinate special populations vulnerable to both COVID-19 and being left behind in the rush for…
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Tennessee is lowering the threshold to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to age 70.The state Department of Health estimates that the change means about…
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Nearly every state in the country is now seeing sustained improvement in their pandemic metrics. Tennessee, which was leading the nation in new cases in…
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center credits an experimental COVID-19 treatment with keeping dozens of patients out of the hospital in recent weeks. It’s…
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Tennessee hospitals have been vaccinating seniors, but only those who are existing patients. Now state health officials say hospitals won’t get any more…