Trends in new COVID-19 cases don’t offer good news
George Lord
George Lord, Ph.D., is a sociologist who previously was a faculty member at the University of Memphis and dean at the University of the Virgin Islands. He retired in 2015 from the Mayor's Innovation Delivery Team in Memphis.
The primary metric that was supposed to guide our decisions isn’t moving in the right direction. It wasn’t telling us what we wanted to hear, so it appears as if we’re choosing to ignore it.
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