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Memphis surgeon dies of COVID-related illness weeks after receiving second COVID vaccine – WGNO New Orleans
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Mid-South doctor has died of a COVID-related illness. However, he never knew he had the virus and he’d been vaccinated. Dr. J Barton Williams,…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. A Mid-South doctor has died of a COVID-related illness. However, he never knew he had the virus and he’d been vaccinated.
Dr. J Barton Williams, called a student of medicine and science, went from doctor to patient when he fell ill weeks ago. Dr. Stephen Threlkeld helped treat him at Baptist Hospital.
Threlkeld says the disease quickly went from diagnosis to death.
It was matter of days, Threlkeld said. Just a tragedy.
Williams, an Orthopedic Surgeon for OrthoSouth, died February…
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