Lots of COVID-19 data but few answers about what the numbers mean for reopening
National Guard medics and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center staff collect nasal swabs as hundreds of Memphians line up for COVID-19 testing at the Christ Community testing site in Hickory Hill on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
David Waters
David Waters is Distinguished Journalist in Residence and assistant director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis.
The slowly rising tide of local confirmed COVID-19 cases and related deaths can get lost in the uneven ebb and flow of daily numbers.
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