by design | Feb 11, 2021 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
Within the first 24 hours of KCHD rolling out its vaccine waitlist, more than 6,600 qualifying individuals had signed up. “We are hearing from folks in our community about how easy it was to sign up and how grateful they are for this option,” said Dr. Martha Buchanan,...
by design | Feb 10, 2021 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
The Knox County Health Department (KCHD) last week requested the State investigate a discrepancy of 975 second-dose Pfizer vaccines. Yesterday, the State confirmed the doses had been shipped to KCHD, but the Health Department has no record of receiving the vaccines....
by design | Feb 9, 2021 | COVID-19, The Daily Focus
Tomorrow, the Knox County Health Department will roll out a new online registration platform so qualifying individuals can join a waitlist for future vaccination opportunities. Health care workers, first responders and those 70 years and older can sign up on the...
by design | Feb 9, 2021 | The Daily Focus
MEDIC Regional Blood Center is celebrating the late Coach Pat Summitt by hosting a special week each year. MEDIC will donate $5 per donor to the Pat Summitt Foundation during this week’s We Back Pat Week February 8 – 12. Donors will receive a special edition We...
by Jim Ferguson | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Ferguson
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt By Dr. Jim Ferguson “Was FDR correct?” I guess I’m getting older because the number one question among my peers is, “Did you get it?” No, not the “stimulus check,” the Covid vaccine! Since I...
by Mark Nagi | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi When I was younger, I had dreams. I wanted to be the play by play voice of the New York Rangers. No, that didn’t pan out, but other dreams were realized. I have two smart and wonderful daughters, a roof over my head, a steady job… I know how blessed I am,...
by Tom Mattingly | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Never was John Majors happier to see a flag dropped. It was Nov. 5, 1988, and the Vols had a one-game winning streak, after a win two weeks earlier at Memphis State. That doesn’t sound like much, but the Vols had dropped six in a row to start...
by Joe Rector | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector As Big Orange fans know, the past football season has been one filled with disappointment. We fans expected much better results from the team, even though some “cream puff” teams were replaced with an all-SEC schedule of teams. The men’s basketball team...
by Ralphine Major | Feb 8, 2021 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com February, the “heart” month that emphasizes the importance of heart health. My first story printed in this weekly column was about this very subject. On February 7, 2011, “The Real McCoy” was published in The Focus sharing about...
by Harold Black | Feb 8, 2021 | Black, Columnist
By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com Two movements have characterized the left’s takeover of our schools, politics and media. They are the cancel culture and the muzzle culture. While most of us have heard about the cancel culture fewer of us have paid...
