Six months in, we’re all living in ‘COVID World’
Pandemic affects the way we think, speak and act every day
National Guard medics and 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 in May, 2020. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 in Memphis spawned new words, such as "Stranger Fever," and changed people's thoughts and actions. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its "social distancing" and "new normal" is not so different. History has provided an echo.
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COVID-19 Alisa Haushalter Patrice Robinson Tami Sawyer Dr. Jon McCullers Keith McDonald Jennifer Langford Yellow feverDon Wade
Don Wade has been a Memphis journalist since 1998 and he has won awards for both his sports and news/feature writing. He is originally from Kansas City and is married with three sons.
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