CDC grants $61.7M to state for vaccine efforts

Erica Armstrong, research assistant in the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, pipettes a solution into small tubes of suspended B cells, a first step in the effort to isolate B cells from human serum that produce coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies.

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The Tennessee Department of Health has now reported a total of 891,331 cases of COVID-19 across the state, up 2,586 cases on Thursday from 14,823 new test results — a 13.6 percent positivity rate.

Of the total number of cases, 12,730 people have died — with eight deaths reported in the last 24 hours.