TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 19, 2021

Internal correspondence among Tennessee Department of Health officials contrasted with public comments show that the number of “excess” doses found at the Shelby County Health Department were overstated, the Memphis Business Journal reports. The Journal looks at the state and the county’s methodology for determining the excess doses. It also explores the county’s explanation for the excess doses, including that a stockpile intended for teachers was not used because the state did not open up that phase as early as expected, and that other doses went unused due to unanticipated weather issues.