The world came together to fight polio. Why not the coronavirus?
Robert Lee Long
Robert Lee Long is a retired newspaper editor and a contributing columnist for The Daily Memphian. He is also a historian and theologian and formerly served as a radio correspondent for Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Isn’t it a shame that to battle the novel coronavirus, a major campaign has not yet been launched unilaterally and on a global scale?
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