Good Thursday morning from Memphis, where winter-like temps have returned and we re getting ready for Easter weekend. But first the White House is making news in Memphis on the vaccination front.
The announcement comes as local authorities have been pushing to combat falling vaccine demand and expand uptake in minority populations.
The center will be the first federally-run, mass vaccination site in Tennessee, Andy Slavitt, White House Senior Advisor for COVID-19 Response, said in a press briefing Wednesday morning. Federal personnel have already been deployed to Memphis, and the site will be up and running by April 7.
The site, operated in collaboration with the state and local officials, will be at the Pipkin Building. Federal authorities and city officials plan to administer 3,000 doses a day at the site, Kennedy reported.
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To go or not to go
It seems like the never-ending discussion around whether Memphis, Light, Gas and Water which if it were a football player could be likened a free agent Tom Brady will leave the Tennessee Valley Authority.
To catch you up: After months of talk about the possibility of MLGW leaving TVA, J.T. Young, chief executive of MLGW, announced a couple of weeks ago he wanted to suspend those discussions and renegotiate the contract with TVA.
That sentence violates my rule against using acronyms and if you must, never use more than one in any paragraph. But I digress.