Calkins: For the past two weeks, I’ve had COVID. Here is what I learned.
Christ Community Health Services staff members conduct nasal swabs at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, on Lamar Avenue. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
I was stunned when I tested positive for COVID. In the course of recovering, I learned a few things.
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