Local WWII veteran shares COVID-19 survival story
January 2, 2021
For the last 10 months COVID-19 has hit home for many people, especially for 98-year-old William Dennis.
“It was bad, it was good after I got out of the hospital,” said Dennis.
It’s been a miracle for 98-year-old William Dennis and his family.
Dennis, a World War II Veteran, tested positive for COVID-19 on December 6. Days later he was home from hospital.
Dennis’ daughter Phyllis Elliot says this is something they didn’t expect, but she is happy he was able to make it through.
“I was petrified. I was like really scared because everything we heard was all negative, and normally for someone his age it’s really hard for them to fight off the virus,” said Elliot.
Nearly one-third of Jackson-Madison County General Hospital s patients are there due to the coronavirus.
The hospital reported treating 189 COVID-19 patients Wednesday, 34 of whom it considers to be in the recovering stage of infection. The total sets a new COVID-19 hospitalization high for the facility.
Tina Prescott, the COO of West Tennessee Healthcare, said the hospital is still trying to limit the number of patients it receives as its census nears capacity. We monitor it on a case-by-case basis, Prescott added. But our hospital is not open to those already in another facility because of the volume and census of patients coming in through our emergency department.
WBBJ TV
December 23, 2020
JACKSON, Tenn. Health officials have good news and bad news about the vaccination progress in Madison County.
Health department officials confirmed, so far, they’ve been able to vaccinate more than 500 first responders as part of their first phase of vaccinations.
“We ran out of vaccine around 6:00. We were supposed to run until 8:00” said Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department director Kim Tedford.
In fact, if first responders had shown up to the health department on Wednesday, they would have seen a sign telling them that there were no vaccines available. That’s because the state notified the health department that their expected shipment of 900 Moderna vaccines would not arrive on time.
Additional death, 127 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Madison County
December 22, 2020
The health department says 132 Madison County residents have died due to complications of COVID-19.
The health department also confirmed another 127 positive cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total number of confirmed positive cases to 7,909.
Those new patients range in age from 1 week old to 81-years-old.
There are currently 25 Madison County residents hospitalized, with five of those patients on a ventilator.
West Tennessee Healthcare says there are currently 140 COVID-positive patients hospitalized at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital, with 29 of those patients on ventilators. In all, 59 ventilators were in use Tuesday morning, according to West Tennessee Healthcare.