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Metro Public Health

First case of monkeypox detected in Nashville. What to know and what to watch for.

Marianna Bacallao

July 7, 2022

monkeypox virus

The Metro Public Health Department says an individual tested positive after traveling out of the country, but the CDC will conduct another round of testing to confirm the results.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Davidson County, don't panic, Metro Public Health, monkeypox, public health

With testing and vaccination at a trickle, a key Nashville site will close at the end of the month

Blake Farmer

April 20, 2022

Nashville leaders have decided to close down the city’s central COVID vaccination and testing site. They say demand has dried up, with just a trickle of cars coming through each day.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: COVID testing, Gill Wright, metro, Metro Public Health, vaccine

In Tennessee, don’t expect any more COVID contact tracing calls — for now

Blake Farmer

February 11, 2022

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The state is winding down its increasingly futile attempts to investigate positive COVID cases and alert those who’ve been exposed, which means Tennesseans are pretty much on their own with contact tracing at this point.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: contact tracing, Coronavirus In Tennessee, COVID-19, Leslie Waller, Lisa Piercey, Metro Public Health, Tennessee Department of Health

CDC Urges More Masking, But A New Mandate Is Not In The Works For Nashville

Alexis Marshall

July 28, 2021

Some places, like Los Angeles and Kansas City are already reinstating mask mandates as the delta variant of the coronavirus takes hold. But in Nashville, that’s not in the cards. 

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: coronavirus vaccine, masks, Mayor John Cooper, Metro Public Health, TSSAA

Nashville Health Department Reverses Course And Says It Will Drop Mask Mandate

Rachel Iacovone

May 13, 2021

The masks are coming off after all in Nashville — for those who are vaccinated. The latest shift in pandemic guidance came Thursday, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: CDC, Coronavirus In Tennessee, COVID-19, masks, Metro Public Health

Nashville Discloses 228 Unreported COVID Deaths, Citing Medical Examiner Backlog

Blake Farmer

March 2, 2021

Hospital room

The low rate of COVID-related deaths in Davidson County may not be as low as Nashville officials have taken credit for in recent weeks. The city has now disclosed that its medical examiner has been running way behind in confirming local fatalities ever since the winter surge.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: Coronavirus In Tennessee, Metro Public Health

Nashville Moves Vaccination Site To Its Huge Convention Center In Hopes Of Getting More Doses

Blake Farmer

January 28, 2021

Music City Center

The Music City Center was never needed as a pandemic overflow hospital, as once feared. But it will be used as Nashville’s centralized mass vaccination site, in the hope that the city will eventually get enough COVID-19 vaccine to make use of its 2.1 million square feet of space.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: coronavirus vaccine, Gill Wright, Metro Public Health, Music City Center, Siloam

Metro Health Board Forces Director To Resign Over HR Findings Of Sexism

Blake Farmer

December 10, 2020

Dr. Michael Caldwell speaks in front of a Tennessee Titans mural.

Dr. Michael Caldwell apologized and accepted that he has work to do with what he described as “unconscious bias” toward women. But the Metro Board of Health decided the director of the city’s Public Health Department could not regain the confidence of his 700 employees.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, Metro Tagged With: Metro Public Health, Michael Caldwell

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