While many frontline health care workers have been eager to get vaccinated, some in Tennessee are opting out. State officials are seeing signs of more hesitancy than they expected in hospitals.
Gov. Bill Lee Limits Some Indoor Gatherings And Pleads With Tennesseans To Wear A Mask
In a rare statewide address Sunday night, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee escalated his pleas for Tennesseans to follow COVID-19 guidelines to slow the spread of the virus. It’s now spreading faster and killing more people each day than the state has previously experienced. Lee also issued a new executive order to restrict some — but […]
Tennessee Will Send Its Much-Debated Reserve Pfizer Vaccine To Nashville General Hospital
Health officials in Tennessee spent the past week defending why they didn’t promptly begin vaccinations when the state received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer on Monday. A week later, those doses will go to Nashville General Hospital, according to spokesperson Sherry Gibbs.
Vaccine Arrives For Tennessee Frontline Hospital Workers In Their Darkest Hour Yet
COVID-19 vaccines arrived at Tennessee hospitals Thursday in the darkest days of the pandemic so far. Even as they began inoculating their frontline staff, they are seeing the sickest patients yet.
Tennessee Hospitals Launch Long-Awaited COVID-19 Vaccinations
An environmental services employee at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was the hospital’s first frontline worker to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
Tennessee’s Choice To Stockpile COVID-19 Vaccines Confounds Doctors
Doctors in public health and critical care are questioning Tennessee’s decision to stockpile its first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Most states are finding a way to use the very first shipments.
First COVID Vaccine In Nashville Administered To Surgeon Who Took Part In Study
Dr. William Polk is one of 29 people identified after the trials were “unblinded,” revealing which subjects had been inoculated and which had received dummy vaccinations.
Tennessee To Receive 115,000 Doses Of Moderna Vaccine Next Week
Tennessee is planning to receive 115,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 next week, pending emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. They’ll be shipped to health departments in all 95 counties across the state and will be more accessible than the Pfizer vaccine.
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