MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Greater Memphis Chamber has launched a new Job Listing page for companies with immediate hiring needs in the Memphis area. The site can be accessed from the Chamber’s COVID-19 Business Resources Page.
“Our team is speaking with local business leaders on a daily basis and despite the challenging climate for many businesses, there are many local companies with immediate hiring needs,” said Beverly Robertson, President and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber. “We want to share that information with the broader community as quickly as possible to help connect people with opportunities and help our businesses get the workforce they need.”
Some companies with immediate hiring needs include Kroger, Amazon, Lehman Roberts, PSF Web and more.
As part of the Chamber’s COVID-19 Response, the organization is contacting Memphis area businesses daily. They are also executing a COVID-19 Business Impact Survey to quantify impact on local businesses. The Chamber will rerun that survey every 2-3 days for the next few weeks to get a better idea of the economic impact in real time. Those findings will be shared publicly as they are aggregated.
For more information, visit memphischamber.com.
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Coronavirus in Context:
The majority of people who have coronavirus will get better without any long-term effects, according to an Oregon doctor. About 80% of cases tend to be mild. In these cases, symptoms diminish over five to seven days, although people are still capable of transmitting the disease. But there are many people with a higher risk of having a more severe disease if they are diagnosed with coronavirus, including those with heart disease, diabetes, asthma and other vascular disease problems.
Also, most children who get it have mild symptoms.
WHO officials said March 9 that of about 80,000 people who have been sickened by COVID-19 in China, more than 70% have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.
Patients are typically released when they test negative twice for the virus within 24 hours, meaning they’re no longer carrying the virus, although some countries may be using a slightly different definition, that may include when people have no more respiratory symptoms or a clear CT scan.
The World Health Organization said it could take considerably longer for people to be “recovered,” depending on the severity of disease.
Dr. Mike Ryan, the World Health Organization's emergencies chief, said it can take up to six weeks for people to fully recover from COVID-19 infections, which could include pneumonia and other respiratory problems in serious cases. He said the numbers of reported patients have not always been systematically provided to World Health Organization although the U.N. health agency is asking every country with cases for further information.
To put the coronavirus numbers in context, millions of Americans get the flu every single year and there are thousands of flu deaths annually.
Since October 2019, the CDC estimates around 32 million Americans have gotten the flu. That’s one in every 10 Americans.