Opinion: County mayor urges move beyond ‘vaccine skepticism’
Brenda Echols, 70, (in a file photo) gets a COVID-19 vaccine at the Southwest Community College Whitehaven Center. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Lee Harris
Lee Harris is the sixth mayor of Shelby County, co-chair of the Joint Memphis/Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force, and a fifth-generation Memphian.
‘All told, Shelby County has lost over 1,500 lives,’ Mayor Lee Harris writes. ‘That’s more than the number of soldiers from Shelby County lost during the Vietnam War, Korean War and World War II, combined.’
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