20,000 COVID diagnoses in Memphis-area students is a sobering pandemic milestone

Eighteen months after the pandemic first disrupted schools across the U.S, Shelby County marks a grim pandemic milestone: 20,000 school-age children have tested positive for COVID since the pandemic began in March 2020. That means about one in 9 Shelby County children, ages 5 to 18, has been infected with COVID, according to data from […]