Songwriter Melody Walker approaches the pharmacy counter at a Walgreens in East Nashville. She’s excited to get her omicron-targeting COVID booster before attending AmericanaFest.
As Nashville gets down to its last federal COVID money, homelessness and workforce development are the city’s top priorities
Nashville just has over $79 million of federal COVID-19 funds left to spend.
Shots for tots: Here’s how parents in Nashville can get their kids the COVID vaccine
Parents have long been waiting for the CDC to recommend the COVID vaccine for infants and toddlers. Now that they have, here’s how families in Nashville can get their tots the shot.
As COVID cases rise again, Tennessee is ‘trying to develop a truce with this virus’
COVID is creeping back up in Tennessee. From positivity rates to hospitalizations — the numbers are heading in the wrong direction. But this is not a new variant, but rather a new round of slightly mutated omicron.
This rural Tennessee county was a vaccine success story. Not anymore.
At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place. A small county northeast of Chattanooga, along the twisting banks of Chickamauga Lake, for much of the past year has reported the highest covid-19 vaccination rate in Tennessee and one of the highest in the South. Meigs County, which […]
Dr. James Hildreth on continued masking, long COVID and a pandemic silver lining
Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College and a member of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, joined This Is Nashville on Wednesday to answer listeners’ questions and concerns about the pandemic and how the community can better keep vulnerable people safe.
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