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A sharp tingle shoots through Terrell Harris’ leg. He pops a pill for the pain, but his nerves will act up again when the medicine wears off.
His legs are so weak and unpredictable he uses a walker to get around. At least, after weeks of physical therapy and medication, he’s now able to make it up stairs.
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Before the pandemic, the 26-year-old Flint, Michigan, resident thought it would be decades before pill organizers, walkers and neuropathy became everyday life. But COVID-19 changed that.
“My breathing still isn’t 100% yet,” Harris said.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Mamie Williams receives the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from Haley Smethers on Jan. 10Photo: Susan Urmy/VUMC
Since February, Jarod Parrish has been visiting barbershops in North Nashville neighborhoods, getting to know the clientele and screening them for hypertension. It’s part of a study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center designed to bring preventative care to Black men, meeting them where they go for a haircut. The clinical pharmacist has become such a fixture that barbershop patrons have taken to calling him “Blood Pressure Man.”