Good morning Memphis, where students are returning to schools for TNReady assessments and the University of Memphis is celebrating two more Tigers joining NFL rosters.
The doctors said COVID-19 vaccines have no impact on fertility, are safe for people who have had reactions to previous vaccines or have drug allergies, and do not cause any genetic modifications in people.
Fauci, chief medical advisor to the White House and director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Webb, the senior policy advisor to the White House for COVID-19 equity, also discussed when vaccines will become available for children and encouraged Tennesseans to get their shots.
The festival will take place in the park June 18 and 19.
The Forrests remains are still in Health Sciences Park though the bronze equestrian monument honoring the once slave-trader who presided over the slaughter of Black Union Army soldiers was removed in December 2017.
The removal of the monument came after more than a year of protests lead by grassroots group #TakeEmDown901 and after a city council vote secured the sale of Health Sciences Park to Memphis Greenspace Inc. The sale allowed officials to bypass Tennessee laws that prohibited the removal of such monuments.
The pandemic forced the celebration to go virtual in 2020, though an informal celebration formed Downtown at the I Am A Man Plaza outside Clayborn Temple after weeks of protests in Memphis spurred by the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.