Coronavirus

(TN AG Office)  Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has appealed and will immediately seek a stay of two recent federal district court decisions against the enforcement of Governor Bill Lee’s Executive Order 84, which allows a student’s parent or guardian the right to opt out of any requirement to …

The contractor leading the environmental cleanup efforts on the Oak Ridge reservation, UCOR is requiring its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. As first reported by our partners at Oak Ridge Today, the requirement applies to all of its nearly 2,000 employees and is a condition of employment. The vaccination …

The Tennessee Department of Health said it’s been warned monoclonal antibody treatment availability “could be temporarily reduced,” and is recommending that unvaccinated COVID-19 patients get priority over the vaccinated if a provider is having trouble meeting demand. The treatment is given to people who contract COVID to boost their immune response …

The Tennessee National Guard is now supporting ten additional medical centers throughout the state as they continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the Guard’s total support to 32 medical facilities across the state. According to the Guard, roughly 80 Soldiers and Airmen who specialize in administration, began supporting medical …

Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases driven by the Delta variant here in East Tennessee and across the country, organizers of the Secret City Festival have announced the cancellation of all of the annual event’s daytime activities. Officials did say, however, the concerts, food trucks, and fireworks scheduled for …

A group made up of hospitals and health care networks in East Tennessee on Wednesday issued an open letter urging everyone who is eligible to receive one of the available COVID-19 vaccines to do so as case numbers continue to rise and hospitalizations not only reach but surpass winter peak …

All Union County schools will be closed today (Sept. 1) through Friday, September 10th. All school events, including athletics, will be canceled during this time and classes in Union County are scheduled to resume on Monday, September 13th. The closure is being attributed to a rise in COVID-19 cases and an inability to …

Tennessee recorded its highest number of active COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic on Monday, with over 79,400 people currently afflicted.  Hospitalizations have also gone up in recent days, and there were 3159 people in the hospital statewide as of Monday’s update by the Tennessee Department of Health.  …

Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened directed investigations in five states exploring whether statewide prohibitions on universal indoor masking discriminate against students with disabilities who are at heightened risk for severe illness from COVID-19 by preventing them from safely accessing in-person education. “The Department has …

During a press conference Wednesday, Governor Bill Lee urged families to “make informed decisions” to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 as case counts continue to surge.   Lee said that some of the measures that parents can take to slow the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant could include …